Yes, Mother Nature is flawed. After all, what are hospitals, antibiotics, central heating, surgery, air conditioning, sewers, treated municipal drinking water for? For that matter, clothes?
Actually, the reality is that the USA has left space behind. If other countries feel the need to re-enact 50 year old Space Theater, that's their problem.
Yes, that sums it up for me as well. About 5 years ago I was doing some freelancing, visited a company here in Montreal. The owner showed me around, took me to a large mostly empty room and proudly showed me a big 3D printer being set up. Over the next year I noticed it just essentially sat there. Seems like 3D printing has very narrow, specific valid uses, but most of the time it looks like they are good at transferring huge amounts of money towards 3D printer companies. There are enough "old school" companies making pretty much everything you can want, it's just a search away. I don't need a 3D printer to make cases for my electronics, I simply design around available cases. I did notice a lot of newbs on forums designing the case first, then trying to fit all their electronics in there. I mean sure, it's fun to draw in 3D and add all kinds of features, but other companies have already done this for you. On another topic, for making quadcopters (I was into those way before they became "drones" somehow), I have a friend who cuts carbon fiber sheets on a CNC machine in his garage. That seems far more useful than a 3D printer.
Weird. I bought a HP color laser printer that right out of the box couldn't print a straight line, it looked like a drunk person tried to draw the lines.
I returned it and bought a Brother instead. It seems to like curling the paper because I understand that Brother uses a higher melting point for their toner.
You can't win these days, printers are a dead end technology.
You're supposed to let them ripen, and eat them right away. They don't hold up well once they're sliced into a salad, for example. I ate a salad with avocado that I had prepared a day before, and the texture of the avocado was gross, like eating a green slug.
Now I make my salad ahead of time, but I put in a half avocado covered in cling wrap, then I slice it when I eat the salad.
Yeah, everyone gets more from the government except the people that pay taxes. I live in this shitty-ass backwater province of Quebec, and I need medical care. A series of "family doctors" and specialists all more useless than the next, only interested in a mechanical approach of one symptom, one test, one pill. And if you complain about pain that doesn't show up on a test, then it's in your head and you need a psychologist.
But we make nice planes no one wants with that 50% that is stolen from my paycheck every two weeks.
I was in high school in the 1980s and they wanted to put Commodore PETs everywhere, then they wanted Apples, then the provincial government decided it would be IBM PCs in the computer classes. Looking back, I can imagine that the salesmen were salivating at all that juicy education money.
TI still sells overpriced calculators to universities today! Education is as much a racket as anything else these days.
Well... OK... I know anime has an infinite variety of preferences.... But I like heavyset girls, but still with curves. That's a tough mix to get right. I used to date this roller derby girl but she was a bit too strong and dominating. So I'm back to searching for a big curvy submissive girl.
I'm the same age as you and grew up in Canada near an airport. We had the same structure nearby, they would test it only once or twice a year, and also the CF-188's would practice landing there I guess. Fun times.
The Canadian ones, the IMPs, are OK I guess. I used to be able to buy them for 5$ at the surplus, they were expired but still fine. I used them in my bike camping tours. They were a lot of fun to lug around. They were all quite edible, some even tasty (franks and beans!), but I did poop like a rabbit for a few days. A constipated rabbit.
Slashdot Mirror
"Is some other new fusion design going suddenly break us out of this pattern? "
www.generalfusion.com
reviving the YF-23 program. That plane was the better machine.
I am being silly, aren't I?
Yes, Mother Nature is flawed. After all, what are hospitals, antibiotics, central heating, surgery, air conditioning, sewers, treated municipal drinking water for? For that matter, clothes?
What about cancer? That's a flaw.
So what are you really trying to say?
Actually, the reality is that the USA has left space behind. If other countries feel the need to re-enact 50 year old Space Theater, that's their problem.
Sorry, I didn't notice any turbines on the sidewalk the last time I took the bus.
Yes, that sums it up for me as well. About 5 years ago I was doing some freelancing, visited a company here in Montreal. The owner showed me around, took me to a large mostly empty room and proudly showed me a big 3D printer being set up.
Over the next year I noticed it just essentially sat there.
Seems like 3D printing has very narrow, specific valid uses, but most of the time it looks like they are good at transferring huge amounts of money towards 3D printer companies.
There are enough "old school" companies making pretty much everything you can want, it's just a search away. I don't need a 3D printer to make cases for my electronics, I simply design around available cases.
I did notice a lot of newbs on forums designing the case first, then trying to fit all their electronics in there. I mean sure, it's fun to draw in 3D and add all kinds of features, but other companies have already done this for you.
On another topic, for making quadcopters (I was into those way before they became "drones" somehow), I have a friend who cuts carbon fiber sheets on a CNC machine in his garage. That seems far more useful than a 3D printer.
Until the crows get beak cancer and PETA finds out.
You know, maybe, just maybe, we could convince municipalities that it's THEIR job to keep a city clean, by, you know, HIRING people to sweep streets?
Not everything needs to be a magical unicorn tech-incubator 3D printed private space asteroid-mined facebook-enabled startup.
Just saying.
HobbyKing to the rescue.
One website scammed me, so all websites cannot be trusted. Therefore, to show I trust all websites, I shall disable all firewalls.
Weird. I bought a HP color laser printer that right out of the box couldn't print a straight line, it looked like a drunk person tried to draw the lines.
I returned it and bought a Brother instead. It seems to like curling the paper because I understand that Brother uses a higher melting point for their toner.
You can't win these days, printers are a dead end technology.
On the planet were progress has made the Creative T20s give perceptible bass out of a 2 inch cone.
It's hard enough getting a gun in Canada, even air rifles are crippled here. Now my quadcopters will be treated as a terrorist weapon?
I got used to the stares carrying model rockets in public transit in the '90s.... That stopped too.
You could pop a V20 in the socket....
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'87, actually.
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Porta Pro came out in '84. I keep buying the same model. I don't have the same pair obviously.
I recently bought a white edition model with after-market ear cushions.
I am a nerd.
If the AI shows me a picture of Super Pochaco, can it reliably detect my preference? Or maybe it needs a picture of something else on my body?
You're supposed to let them ripen, and eat them right away. They don't hold up well once they're sliced into a salad, for example. I ate a salad with avocado that I had prepared a day before, and the texture of the avocado was gross, like eating a green slug.
Now I make my salad ahead of time, but I put in a half avocado covered in cling wrap, then I slice it when I eat the salad.
Yeah, everyone gets more from the government except the people that pay taxes. I live in this shitty-ass backwater province of Quebec, and I need medical care. A series of "family doctors" and specialists all more useless than the next, only interested in a mechanical approach of one symptom, one test, one pill. And if you complain about pain that doesn't show up on a test, then it's in your head and you need a psychologist.
But we make nice planes no one wants with that 50% that is stolen from my paycheck every two weeks.
I was in high school in the 1980s and they wanted to put Commodore PETs everywhere, then they wanted Apples, then the provincial government decided it would be IBM PCs in the computer classes. Looking back, I can imagine that the salesmen were salivating at all that juicy education money.
TI still sells overpriced calculators to universities today! Education is as much a racket as anything else these days.
Well... OK... I know anime has an infinite variety of preferences.... But I like heavyset girls, but still with curves. That's a tough mix to get right. I used to date this roller derby girl but she was a bit too strong and dominating. So I'm back to searching for a big curvy submissive girl.
Super Pochaco! Yeah, I'm a BBW lover! This anime is ridiculous!
Maybe NSFW
I'm the same age as you and grew up in Canada near an airport. We had the same structure nearby, they would test it only once or twice a year, and also the CF-188's would practice landing there I guess.
Fun times.
They're like vegans.
The Canadian ones, the IMPs, are OK I guess. I used to be able to buy them for 5$ at the surplus, they were expired but still fine. I used them in my bike camping tours. They were a lot of fun to lug around. They were all quite edible, some even tasty (franks and beans!), but I did poop like a rabbit for a few days. A constipated rabbit.
Hey Jerry Reed is still very good. Now if you go back to the '60s, it's even better!