well, yeah, makerbot announcing printing in materials that people have been printing with already for a while.
woodfill is pretty common as is bronzefill etc. "conductive" carbon filled filament is fairly common too as is carbon fibre filled filaments, there's also glass filled nylon on the market. basically all these filaments are certain % of whatever filler and the rest is plastic.
HOWEVER! if they were going to announce that they have a new extruder for their 5th gen products that doesn't have stated lifespan of 150 hours(hahaha if you're lucky) before needing replacement at 220-300 euros a pop. that would be news.
if you're a 3d printer guy then PET filaments are something to look into.. prints fairly well.
(yes the 5th gen extruder sucks, widely known fact.)
it's pretty improbable for an entire galaxy, or planet size or whatever object to be the starting point for life, due to chance anyways.
why? for the same reason its improbable for something as complex as a human emerging from a pile of random molecules - except a planet size such happening would be even more improbable, and a galaxy size even vastly more so, to the point that it's probable to never happen no matter how long the monkeys keep typing.
now I didn't have time to put into my original comment the mention of interstellar origins life, which would maybe, just maybe pull it off by evolving into something as big that can withstand a solar system hitting it and absorbing the solar system into itself. but, I reckon that as fairly unlikely too(hostile environment, not much energy going around to provide the energy for growth and even then practicalities of scaling up and the animal avoiding turning into a star itself).
though, if you believe in a godly intervention in the creation process then sure, why not, such solar system scale animals could have been wished into existence, but then again we might just as well go looking for dragons.
but whatever, these futurologists and astrobiologists pull shit out of their asses and present them as facts all day every day. they're literally presenting themselves as experts and scientists of things that we don't know if they exist or ever will exist, modern day toothsayers and when they come up with bullshit like this and ask for money you now they're charlatans as well.
a real AI is so much more different concept than something that logically drives a car perfectly in all possible situations. it just needs to drive a car, it doesn't need to be able to come up with the concept of what a car is on it's own.
that kind of says how far we are from the hipster shit singularity in reality.
doesn't matter, the people proposing to get money for this are all.. how to say... professional bullshitters or more nicely put storytellers(with fancy titles that boil down to being a storyteller).
(though one of the guys has maybe perhaps done a practical application, since he has a patent for it. quick search proved fruitless though on if that method was actually used in practice.. that is, if it really works or not- most publications from him as well seemed to be "what may be possible").
yeah.. maybe, somehow, it happened in 1 galaxy out of billions.
but really, such a creature would more likely be what's commonly called a "civilization".
there's quite a few hurdles between starting as a single cell life and evolving into something that eats stars. - big, BIG jumps necessary - more likely such that they're much more likely to be done by groups of intelligent beings - or such a being would have to have been created on purpose.
like, the creature would first need to eat up the place it evolved in - but before that think/find/somehow have a way to get the next star, no small feat on it's own.
giving them public money would be a total waste. especially when if such existed, detecting it would come for free from the observing we're doing currently.
because it's more like putting a fake postal box and then pretending that it's not fraud to put a fake postal box and look at the mail that goes through said postal box....these towers, they act as fake cell towers, yes? even if they didn't need a warrant, they would need a fucking FCC approval, no? why not? because they're the FBI?...and furthermore, if no warrant is needed, if no fcc approval is needed, if no operator approval is needed - can I put up these towers? if it's all legal and no warrants or permissions needed, then surely why the hell not?
here's the simple rule of thumb: if they don't need a warrant I should be able to do the same thing without a warrant.
he's talking about user interface and machine to machine interfaces in the article, I reckon. that's what he thinks the operating system is... a system for operating the internet of things.
*Why don't we have two faucet controls, one for temperature and one for stream force? Instead we get two dials each mixing both attributes or one control mixing everything.*
because not too many people want electrified active mixing faucets.
you can buy them if you want to. that shits expensive though.
none of which is as serious as hitting someone in the face, for which the jailterm isn't that much in Finland.
and you know what, if those systems are so shittily built they go the fritz from that, then good riddance. I'm not aware there having been any serious actual damages from whatever the group did. did someone break a bone? did they steal something of monetary value? did they break some hardware?
DANGEROUS CRIMINAL! CALL THE FEEEEEEEDS!!! bullshit. none of this is as serious as vehicular manslaughter for which you can get off for free in NYC.
so put your priorities in order, they're messed up.
...so is blizzard going to bring on their first role playing game soon or something?
they made an ok nethack clone back in the day (18 years ago? or something) with a really neat rendered intro video but it wasn't much of a role playing game and then they made a virtual amusement park game with multiple players and rides that you needed 40 people to go through but I haven't heard of them producing a rpg yet..
well.. as often as it's scripted in. quite a few games have backstabbing party companions as part of the story.
but.. were your friends playing the roles of the characters - or were they roling the character as them(which, actually, isn't the point, the point being taking the role of the character instead of making the character act like you would, which would take the story to uncharted pointless ends quite quickly).
like, if the character has low wisdom.. well.. then he has low wisdom - same with alignments.
You do know that's because infant mortality was higher, right?
you know that's bullshit, right? or you consider vaccines something that save mostly infant lives?
where did this tidbit pop up lately, since wackos are repeating it all over the internets lately? for some reason they think that adult life expectancy now is the same as 200 years ago when that's bs. and as for nutrition, the beds from 120 years ago in my home country weren't small because they enjoyed sleeping in too short beds.... they were small because they ate poorly..
I guess it's the same wackos who like to say shit like "cancer is a modern disease", as if cancer started appearing only when they got advanced enough to make classifications for it..
there's only a set number of money in the pool from the set number of subscribers and they read what they read.
in the old one, the reader might have bought both of your books... and in the new one, no, the reader will only spend 10 bucks / month. - that is the "zero" sum, the sum doesn't depend on if people read two books from you and one from your competitor. there's no monthly variation if the reader wanted to read books from both authors.
well, what it really is, is a good reason to cut down as many trees as you can and make buildings, furniture or whatever using the wood instead of letting it decompose - and then plant new trees. so tree farms to rescue! and landfills where paper diapers are buried.
if they did enter it to the judge at 80( you know, just releasing a press release != giving it to the judge who might throw it out because it's infeasible in the first place) and then side talked a different settlement then its also mockery of the justice system on top of the investor fraud...
it was meant to affect shareholder value, value of future negotiations and all manner of other things.
further, it was meant to be used as a number to throw around when trying to extort money from other sites. like, when negotiating with isohunt say that the other site paid 80 million bucks and vice versa.
basically.. at the core of things.. it was fraud.
not just on one level but on many levels. all the mpaa member companies should be held accountable for that fraud... but guess if they are? fuck no..
I wonder why they have to quote some site as if this was news or secret when slashdot could have quoted the-non-microsoft-part-of-nokia directly or could have quoted slashdot directly.
can you stick your finger into square hole and turn like that though. anyways, maybe they only need just that and only that.
the wrench looks dull if you look at just the image but actually it has a spinner/oneway lock(dunno english name for that) inside, that you can not see in the pictures - the mechanism is printed in place. I was checking it out because there's the on circle on the surface that shows there's something funny going on. also, for one piece functionality print, your 3d printer better be calibrated correctly to print this one out.
the article claims the bones becoming weaker and weaker into the future to the point where you'll break your bones when you try to play golf for the first time. about.
how do you deal with people just writing their name on a piece of paper and putting that on the copyright page? manual verification, including manually reading the copyright page and checking that's the copyright page? just by that it would be too tedious to cheat that way?
(it's already pretty tedious to have to write the name on every book, that kind of takes away the getting the entire library in a snap as I find that it's pretty unlikely for many people to have _any_ public domain books)
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well, yeah, makerbot announcing printing in materials that people have been printing with already for a while.
woodfill is pretty common as is bronzefill etc. "conductive" carbon filled filament is fairly common too as is carbon fibre filled filaments, there's also glass filled nylon on the market. basically all these filaments are certain % of whatever filler and the rest is plastic.
HOWEVER! if they were going to announce that they have a new extruder for their 5th gen products that doesn't have stated lifespan of 150 hours(hahaha if you're lucky) before needing replacement at 220-300 euros a pop. that would be news.
if you're a 3d printer guy then PET filaments are something to look into.. prints fairly well.
(yes the 5th gen extruder sucks, widely known fact.)
it's pretty improbable for an entire galaxy, or planet size or whatever object to be the starting point for life, due to chance anyways.
why? for the same reason its improbable for something as complex as a human emerging from a pile of random molecules - except a planet size such happening would be even more improbable, and a galaxy size even vastly more so, to the point that it's probable to never happen no matter how long the monkeys keep typing.
now I didn't have time to put into my original comment the mention of interstellar origins life, which would maybe, just maybe pull it off by evolving into something as big that can withstand a solar system hitting it and absorbing the solar system into itself. but, I reckon that as fairly unlikely too(hostile environment, not much energy going around to provide the energy for growth and even then practicalities of scaling up and the animal avoiding turning into a star itself).
though, if you believe in a godly intervention in the creation process then sure, why not, such solar system scale animals could have been wished into existence, but then again we might just as well go looking for dragons.
but whatever, these futurologists and astrobiologists pull shit out of their asses and present them as facts all day every day. they're literally presenting themselves as experts and scientists of things that we don't know if they exist or ever will exist, modern day toothsayers and when they come up with bullshit like this and ask for money you now they're charlatans as well.
a car doesn't really need a real AI.
a real AI is so much more different concept than something that logically drives a car perfectly in all possible situations. it just needs to drive a car, it doesn't need to be able to come up with the concept of what a car is on it's own.
that kind of says how far we are from the hipster shit singularity in reality.
doesn't matter, the people proposing to get money for this are all.. how to say... professional bullshitters or more nicely put storytellers(with fancy titles that boil down to being a storyteller).
(though one of the guys has maybe perhaps done a practical application, since he has a patent for it. quick search proved fruitless though on if that method was actually used in practice.. that is, if it really works or not- most publications from him as well seemed to be "what may be possible").
yeah.. maybe, somehow, it happened in 1 galaxy out of billions.
but really, such a creature would more likely be what's commonly called a "civilization".
there's quite a few hurdles between starting as a single cell life and evolving into something that eats stars. - big, BIG jumps necessary - more likely such that they're much more likely to be done by groups of intelligent beings - or such a being would have to have been created on purpose.
like, the creature would first need to eat up the place it evolved in - but before that think/find/somehow have a way to get the next star, no small feat on it's own.
giving them public money would be a total waste. especially when if such existed, detecting it would come for free from the observing we're doing currently.
well with bluetooth, the dac used is the cars dac, so it would sound exactly the same.
because it's more like putting a fake postal box and then pretending that it's not fraud to put a fake postal box and look at the mail that goes through said postal box. ...these towers, they act as fake cell towers, yes? even if they didn't need a warrant, they would need a fucking FCC approval, no? why not? because they're the FBI? ...and furthermore, if no warrant is needed, if no fcc approval is needed, if no operator approval is needed - can I put up these towers? if it's all legal and no warrants or permissions needed, then surely why the hell not?
here's the simple rule of thumb: if they don't need a warrant I should be able to do the same thing without a warrant.
he's talking about user interface and machine to machine interfaces in the article, I reckon. that's what he thinks the operating system is... a system for operating the internet of things.
*Why don't we have two faucet controls, one for temperature and one for stream force? Instead we get two dials each mixing both attributes or one control mixing everything.*
because not too many people want electrified active mixing faucets.
you can buy them if you want to. that shits expensive though.
and now they rewarded malice.
and that's fucking stupid.
so there.
none of which is as serious as hitting someone in the face, for which the jailterm isn't that much in Finland.
and you know what, if those systems are so shittily built they go the fritz from that, then good riddance. I'm not aware there having been any serious actual damages from whatever the group did. did someone break a bone? did they steal something of monetary value? did they break some hardware?
DANGEROUS CRIMINAL! CALL THE FEEEEEEEDS!!! bullshit. none of this is as serious as vehicular manslaughter for which you can get off for free in NYC.
so put your priorities in order, they're messed up.
...so is blizzard going to bring on their first role playing game soon or something?
they made an ok nethack clone back in the day (18 years ago? or something) with a really neat rendered intro video but it wasn't much of a role playing game and then they made a virtual amusement park game with multiple players and rides that you needed 40 people to go through but I haven't heard of them producing a rpg yet..
well.. as often as it's scripted in.
quite a few games have backstabbing party companions as part of the story.
but.. were your friends playing the roles of the characters - or were they roling the character as them(which, actually, isn't the point, the point being taking the role of the character instead of making the character act like you would, which would take the story to uncharted pointless ends quite quickly).
like, if the character has low wisdom.. well.. then he has low wisdom - same with alignments.
You do know that's because infant mortality was higher, right?
you know that's bullshit, right?
or you consider vaccines something that save mostly infant lives?
where did this tidbit pop up lately, since wackos are repeating it all over the internets lately? for some reason they think that adult life expectancy now is the same as 200 years ago when that's bs. and as for nutrition, the beds from 120 years ago in my home country weren't small because they enjoyed sleeping in too short beds.... they were small because they ate poorly..
I guess it's the same wackos who like to say shit like "cancer is a modern disease", as if cancer started appearing only when they got advanced enough to make classifications for it..
for one month it's kinda zero sum..
there's only a set number of money in the pool from the set number of subscribers and they read what they read.
in the old one, the reader might have bought both of your books... and in the new one, no, the reader will only spend 10 bucks / month. - that is the "zero" sum, the sum doesn't depend on if people read two books from you and one from your competitor. there's no monthly variation if the reader wanted to read books from both authors.
well no surprise.
however, I was thinking, can this be ported over to use vectrex as the display? maybe less flicker with it's screen?
well, what it really is, is a good reason to cut down as many trees as you can and make buildings, furniture or whatever using the wood instead of letting it decompose - and then plant new trees. so tree farms to rescue! and landfills where paper diapers are buried.
if they did enter it to the judge at 80( you know, just releasing a press release != giving it to the judge who might throw it out because it's infeasible in the first place) and then side talked a different settlement then its also mockery of the justice system on top of the investor fraud...
it was meant to affect shareholder value, value of future negotiations and all manner of other things.
further, it was meant to be used as a number to throw around when trying to extort money from other sites. like, when negotiating with isohunt say that the other site paid 80 million bucks and vice versa.
basically.. at the core of things.. it was fraud.
not just on one level but on many levels. all the mpaa member companies should be held accountable for that fraud... but guess if they are? fuck no..
a more actually centralized -smaller- government for usa would be nice.
why? no 3+ agencies with ability and rights to wiretap everything any of the tens of thousands of agents feel like typing into the identifier box.
I mean, surely this is proof of that there is no actual oversight, no warrants needed, just type whatever the fuck you want into the box.
coming soon, https web interfaces to these services.
I wonder why they have to quote some site as if this was news or secret when slashdot could have quoted the-non-microsoft-part-of-nokia directly or could have quoted slashdot directly.
it's a dupe.
can you stick your finger into square hole and turn like that though.
anyways, maybe they only need just that and only that.
the wrench looks dull if you look at just the image but actually it has a spinner/oneway lock(dunno english name for that) inside, that you can not see in the pictures - the mechanism is printed in place. I was checking it out because there's the on circle on the surface that shows there's something funny going on. also, for one piece functionality print, your 3d printer better be calibrated correctly to print this one out.
the article claims the bones becoming weaker and weaker into the future to the point where you'll break your bones when you try to play golf for the first time. about.
how do you deal with people just writing their name on a piece of paper and putting that on the copyright page? manual verification, including manually reading the copyright page and checking that's the copyright page? just by that it would be too tedious to cheat that way?
(it's already pretty tedious to have to write the name on every book, that kind of takes away the getting the entire library in a snap as I find that it's pretty unlikely for many people to have _any_ public domain books)