Interesting post. Yes, 3D Printing is very promising. But this need correction...
> What's more expensive, set up a kitchen, or a printer?
A kitchen is way cheaper to setup and run -- whether feeding a few, or a crowd. Its going to stay that way - kitchen technology is not going to stay static.
Think of kitchens as food printers that have been improved thousands of years:D If printers *will* be everywhere, kitchens *are* everywhere - they are way more important for us than printers.
On every Humble Indie Bundle, Linux users pay more per game than MAC or Windows. Windows users pay the least.
Could just be a question of relative value. Windows users also have the most choice in games.... Including CDs of old games picked up cheap in garage sales.
A properly trained, licensed, operator is better than software. For instance, he can determine if the situation is unrecoverable, and decide its better to crash into a mustard field instead of a children's playground (both of which look identical to this drone's sensors sensors). Of course, any computer support that augments the pilot is something good, not bad.
Yes, air roads - in unpopulated areas - are probably a good idea for commercial drones.
When a car engine fails, the default behavior is to coast to a halt -- unless driving downhill! Even so, a car has emergency brakes, gear/engine braking, a human driver, etc.
This scheme has no human in control (its "autonomous"), an externally provided destination ("connected to GPS on the users' mobile phone."), and no protection from a flying plastic bag or sheet fouling multiple propellors, turning it into a heavy unguided missile dropping onto the street below.
To the founders -- densely populated cities are the wrong place for a drone. How about delivering books or medical supplies in the Australian outback? (with a petrol engined drone)
If by evolution you mean the addition of information via useful mutations in the human genome, it is yet to be observed. What *has* been observed instead is functional deterioration of the genome - see http://rt.com/usa/intelligence-stanford-years-fragile-531/ .
So crystallisation via cooling is a "spectacular decrease in entropy", capable of disproving the papers referenced earlier. How did you assess this? By seeing regularity in simple repeating crystal structures versus the liquid blob? By this logic, the regularity of molecules in a solid is evidence of the same thing. But no one calls cooling of a liquid to a solid a "spectacular decrease in entropy".
So the similar size of the earth and the moon are a coincidence...
> There are only a handful of trees left of that age. No way an exponential curve would be smooth with that little data.
You must be very familiar with the details. Anyway, the point is not that there is a smooth curve. The point is that there is a curve which stops abruptly at a time which matching the date of the Genesis flood. There are no trees with more rings. But the oldest trees are *still* growing. So there is no reason that there should not be trees with more rings.
Don't let the fool trolls get to you - you have a good post.
For instance, a trivial browser-side implementation could simply check if bytes flowing in on an SSL connection (say, to https://abc.com443/ matched bytes coming in through a secondary persistent HTTPS connection (say, https://verify.abc.com443/ and that both HTTPS connections use different CA authorities.
Sure, this could be defeated if abc.com is compromised. However, an MITM attack would require two separate CA authorities to be fooled or compromised. And adding verification hosts (verify1, verify2,...) would provide additional 'witnesses' against a MITM.
Hmmm. Client certs are used for authentication of the client to the server (the server also has to import the clients public vert). If there is a successful MITM attack, the client will simply authenticate to the wrong server.
- "A Second Look at the Second Law”, http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/AML_3497.pdf (Accepted, but withheld from publication “not because of any errors or technical problems found by the reviewers or editors, but because the Editor-In-Chief subsequently concluded that the content was more philosophical than mathematical,” according to the apology later published in the related journal.)
- Generations past have accepted the sun as been the day's source of light, and the moon the night's. Are their identical sizes (identical as far as our eyes are concerned) a massive coincidence? Or evidence of design.
- If you saw a exponential decay curve (i.e. a long tail curve), with the tail quite apparently truncated at some point, would you assume an event likely caused the truncation?
One such curve is 'number of trees' (Y axis) versus 'tree-rings per tree' (X axis). The truncation is around 4800 tree-rings (X axis) - the number of rings in the oldest trees. If you allow for some trees adding more a ring a year (they do, but very rarely), this roughly coincides with the Biblical date for Noah's flood (4350 years ago), when the then-exant forest of the world would have been destroyed.
"... with sensors capable of detecting or inferring my presence."
And in this age of miniaturisation, how do you plan on detecting such sensors ace? By using sensors of your own? Which most probably have similar capabilities?
Well, if BSD wasn't around maybe OSX wouldn't be a viable Windows competitor. Maybe we'd still be using a successor of Trumpet WinSock to connect Windows PCs to the Internet. Maybe LLVM and gcc wouldn't be used to create widely-used mobile and desktop consumer applications (i.e. OSX application, using XCode). Maybe mobile applications would still be built mostly using Visual C++ to Windows Phone apps.
Or more likely, his new motherboard chipset (or new drivers), caused the problem.
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)... The RST (Rapid Storage Technology Option Rom ) and drivers are only allowing Trim to pass to the controller onto the drive in Intel 7 series chipsets using driver versions post 11.2.0.0.
This post is like processed food... Suits our fancy, easy on the eye , no real demands, assures us we are safe, badmouths the competition......And created by a faceless anonymous entity
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Interesting post. Yes, 3D Printing is very promising. But this need correction...
> What's more expensive, set up a kitchen, or a printer?
A kitchen is way cheaper to setup and run -- whether feeding a few, or a crowd. Its going to stay that way - kitchen technology is not going to stay static.
Think of kitchens as food printers that have been improved thousands of years :D If printers *will* be everywhere, kitchens *are* everywhere - they are way more important for us than printers.
On every Humble Indie Bundle, Linux users pay more per game than MAC or Windows. Windows users pay the least.
Could just be a question of relative value. Windows users also have the most choice in games.... Including CDs of old games picked up cheap in garage sales.
Go back to your hole, troll!
Is this discontinued? What were the problems faced?
DRM concerns?
Maybe deliver the copy-protection USB dongle via helium balloon mini-airship? :D
A properly trained, licensed, operator is better than software. For instance, he can determine if the situation is unrecoverable, and decide its better to crash into a mustard field instead of a children's playground (both of which look identical to this drone's sensors sensors). Of course, any computer support that augments the pilot is something good, not bad.
Yes, air roads - in unpopulated areas - are probably a good idea for commercial drones.
No help if you live in an apartment :D
When a car engine fails, the default behavior is to coast to a halt -- unless driving downhill! Even so, a car has emergency brakes, gear/engine braking, a human driver, etc.
This scheme has no human in control (its "autonomous"), an externally provided destination ("connected to GPS on the users' mobile phone."), and no protection from a flying plastic bag or sheet fouling multiple propellors, turning it into a heavy unguided missile dropping onto the street below.
To the founders -- densely populated cities are the wrong place for a drone. How about delivering books or medical supplies in the Australian outback? (with a petrol engined drone)
Ah, why did you have to bite at his bait? You were doing fine until this post
(And you are completely right, BTW -- a screenshot *is* evidence. Different pieces of evidence have different weights)
Signed,
The rest of the world
Rubbish -- no CEO wants to satisfy random Slashdotters.
'Good CEOs' are rare because shareholders greedily chase after absurd returns, and charismatic CEOs are seen as key to this.
Not that I know much about them
Me. I'm, if anything, under managed. GP poster is right.
"Have you seen the new Yahoo logo?
That's smart... see the uninspired, shallow people jumping the ship soon."
Seriously, its a silly logo and all that jazz, but wouldn't you leave a company because it no longer the right employer? *
* Where right_employer = (pay && boss && peers && benefits && work_conditions && commute && ! good_self_employment_prospects)
And not because the logo was terrible?
Send in Giant Robot armed with this to neutralize the place
Seriously, about time the stuff there was made sub critical. We can't keep cooling it forever.
> So the similar size of the earth and the moon are a coincidence.
Correction... "similar size of the sun and the moon in the sky"
If by evolution you mean the addition of information via useful mutations in the human genome, it is yet to be observed. What *has* been observed instead is functional deterioration of the genome - see http://rt.com/usa/intelligence-stanford-years-fragile-531/ .
(For a more - vigorous - view, see http://evolutionsciencenow.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/are-humans-getting-better-what-is.html )
So crystallisation via cooling is a "spectacular decrease in entropy", capable of disproving the papers referenced earlier. How did you assess this? By seeing regularity in simple repeating crystal structures versus the liquid blob? By this logic, the regularity of molecules in a solid is evidence of the same thing. But no one calls cooling of a liquid to a solid a "spectacular decrease in entropy".
So the similar size of the earth and the moon are a coincidence...
> There are only a handful of trees left of that age. No way an exponential curve would be smooth with that little data.
You must be very familiar with the details. Anyway, the point is not that there is a smooth curve. The point is that there is a curve which stops abruptly at a time which matching the date of the Genesis flood. There are no trees with more rings. But the oldest trees are *still* growing. So there is no reason that there should not be trees with more rings.
If the ages of the oldest trees is another coincidence, it roughly coincides also with the the span of recorded history and the time since the ancestors of the Danes separated from the ancestors of the Turks.
There are other coincidences.
Don't let the fool trolls get to you - you have a good post.
For instance, a trivial browser-side implementation could simply check if bytes flowing in on an SSL connection (say, to https://abc.com443/ matched bytes coming in through a secondary persistent HTTPS connection (say, https://verify.abc.com443/ and that both HTTPS connections use different CA authorities.
Sure, this could be defeated if abc.com is compromised. However, an MITM attack would require two separate CA authorities to be fooled or compromised. And adding verification hosts (verify1, verify2, ...) would provide additional 'witnesses' against a MITM.
Hmmm. Client certs are used for authentication of the client to the server (the server also has to import the clients public vert). If there is a successful MITM attack, the client will simply authenticate to the wrong server.
Slashdotter here, who disbelieves evolution.
As for "evolution is incontrovertible" argument...
- "Entropy and Evolution" http://dx.doi.org/10.5048/BIO-C.2013.2 (Published)
- "A Second Look at the Second Law”, http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/AML_3497.pdf (Accepted, but withheld from publication “not because of any errors or
technical problems found by the reviewers or editors, but because the Editor-In-Chief subsequently concluded that the content was more philosophical
than mathematical,” according to the apology later published in the related journal.)
- Generations past have accepted the sun as been the day's source of light, and the moon the night's. Are their identical sizes (identical as far as our eyes are concerned) a massive coincidence? Or evidence of design.
- If you saw a exponential decay curve (i.e. a long tail curve), with the tail quite apparently truncated at some point, would you assume an event likely caused the truncation?
One such curve is 'number of trees' (Y axis) versus 'tree-rings per tree' (X axis). The truncation is around 4800 tree-rings (X axis) - the number of rings in the oldest trees. If you allow for some trees adding more a ring a year (they do, but very rarely), this roughly coincides with the Biblical date for Noah's flood (4350 years ago), when the then-exant forest of the world would have been destroyed.
Another coincidence?
"... with sensors capable of detecting or inferring my presence."
And in this age of miniaturisation, how do you plan on detecting such sensors ace? By using sensors of your own? Which most probably have similar capabilities?
Chicken and egg.
Well, if BSD wasn't around maybe OSX wouldn't be a viable Windows competitor. Maybe we'd still be using a successor of Trumpet WinSock to connect Windows PCs to the Internet. Maybe LLVM and gcc wouldn't be used to create widely-used mobile and desktop consumer applications (i.e. OSX application, using XCode). Maybe mobile applications would still be built mostly using Visual C++ to Windows Phone apps.
Or more likely, his new motherboard chipset (or new drivers), caused the problem.
For example: ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)
The RST (Rapid Storage Technology Option Rom ) and drivers are only allowing Trim to pass to the controller onto the drive in Intel 7 series chipsets using driver versions post 11.2.0.0.
This post is like processed food... Suits our fancy, easy on the eye , no real demands, assures us we are safe, badmouths the competition ... ...And created by a faceless anonymous entity
Three unnamed banks. They could be three credit unions who have done you no wrong.
Plus, the more banks r*** people on a daily basis, the more profit bank robbers achieve. Its in their best interest this situation continue.
The banks simply pass on the costs to their customers.