RepRap only makes plastic parts, not quite two-thirds of itself. Compare that with a serious milling machine (and note not even a CNC one), which can and has made over 95% of itself since the 1940s.....
we taxpayers are paying their salaries, so I care about the government employee doing the work I am paying them to do. that is the only difference. sure, most private sector employees also do not need a pc connected to the internet
Most the people in my IT group at work are windows users. most of my friends and relative are windows users. No one likes windows 8, several have downgraded new gear because they hated the 8 so much. At work they say its the new Vista, useless rubbish that should be shunned, and that hopefully "9" will be a release Redmond gets a clue again and puts out something useful.
That's pretty funny when the die-hard windoze fangals/fanbois I know can only bad-mouth the windows 8. Microsoft has failed its own customers, driven dissatisfaction upward, regressed the state of the UI art.
yes, we need constitutional concealed carry. then we can start putting these mall shooters and school shooters down before the body count gets high.
besides, most violent crime in america is commited by a couple subcultures, usually against other members of those subcultures. take that away, the crime rate all of a sudden is better than most of Europe.
plenty of people working on that port, you're just whining because open source volunteers aren't working to YOUR schedule? hint for you, don't buy hardware for software that isn't released yet.
the singularity has already happened, but it is not a purely computational device. instead, it is made of three things: people, the internet, and computers. Google, facebook, twitter, ebay, amazon, major news sites are all part of it.
Deduplication typically isn't done by the operating system in production systems, it is a feature of enterprise grade storage, backup and archival systems.
Snapshots and encryption can be done in GNU/Linux, or done outside the OS.
What enterprise grade storage/backup/archival systems are you using, the obvious solution will already be evident from that answer in most cases.
opensolaris is long dead. OpenIndiana has never put out a stable release and never met their 2011 q1 stable release target. they put out a development release once in a while, but that is NOT production grade nor matained at a level suitable for production use
there is no reason most govenment employees need a pc connected to the internet. they should be using the equivalent of a dumb terminal that can only access relevant apps running on a server. instead, government employees use their pc as entertainment device. past time to take away their toys and give them a one-use tool
How about risk, as your rocket may fail to achieve orbit.
Of course, cost is also realistic consideration, talk of "launching something into the sun" is made by people who don't understand orbital mechanics. The large delta-V for even reaching mercury is fearsome for a half ton object like the MESSENGER probe. we don't have the rockets to send 80,000 tons of nuclear fuel to the sun, nor the trillions of dollars to build such a fleet.
But the truth is our "spent fuel" is actually usable fuel, a gold mine of energy that can release seven or more times that which we've extracted so far, and at the end would leave only isotopes with very short decay time. we should not dispose of it but burn it in modern reactor designs.
The end sentence was written by someone who has watched change over 50 years: major cities have gone bankrupt, economies shift from agrarian to industrial, global superpower fall while another is rising......a change that happenes over a century is far different from the ocean rising two point some feet tomorrow, and temperature gradually changing over the decades. Life will move, adapt, change as it always has.
what nonsense. what is the value of all property in Detroit 50 years ago compared to now? over a timespan of even half a century people can move, things can radically change. new things can be built, old things abandoned, foundations and streets can be raised.
More precise modeling alows IPCC climate report to backstep from previous hysterical claims and hoopla that every recent unusual weather event was a harbinger of doom to come.
Sea level rise in next century, not even a meter. Hurricanes & sever storms, somewhat LESS of them. Arid areas, become slightly more arid and areas with frequent precipitation have somewhat more rain. Total temperature rise in next 100 years, 2 degrees C on top of the 1 degree C rise over 20th century.
In short, not a doomsday scenario, not the end of the world.
We do know why time (direction of entropy) goes one way, the root of the issue is called "symmetry breaking". News for you, we do know the progression of time in the past 14 billion years, we can see it and can see what occured. We can even see the transition from an electromagnetically opaque early universe to the present situation when hydrogen atoms first formed. We can see the expansion of the universe accelerating. There is nothing that has been observed in science that requires the need of your imaginary friend or the nonsensical mystic writings.
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RepRap only makes plastic parts, not quite two-thirds of itself. Compare that with a serious milling machine (and note not even a CNC one), which can and has made over 95% of itself since the 1940s.....
It's a toy for making cute plastic parts.....
we taxpayers are paying their salaries, so I care about the government employee doing the work I am paying them to do. that is the only difference. sure, most private sector employees also do not need a pc connected to the internet
I for one welcome our new lingerie clad nubile asian minx overlords
there is this awesome fusion reactor in the sky you can use instead of special lamps. It yields light with a "natural spectrum", what plants crave.
My mentally retarded hippie uncle found no difficulty in making his doobies from scratch.
Most the people in my IT group at work are windows users. most of my friends and relative are windows users. No one likes windows 8, several have downgraded new gear because they hated the 8 so much. At work they say its the new Vista, useless rubbish that should be shunned, and that hopefully "9" will be a release Redmond gets a clue again and puts out something useful.
That's pretty funny when the die-hard windoze fangals/fanbois I know can only bad-mouth the windows 8. Microsoft has failed its own customers, driven dissatisfaction upward, regressed the state of the UI art.
strange, for many drugs you put a seed in the soil and up comes a plant. don't need a manufacturer or distributor
I see raspberry pies running Debian linux just fine. buy one, plenty of useful software for it, don't need any android to get something useful done
yes, we need constitutional concealed carry. then we can start putting these mall shooters and school shooters down before the body count gets high.
besides, most violent crime in america is commited by a couple subcultures, usually against other members of those subcultures. take that away, the crime rate all of a sudden is better than most of Europe.
anyone over age 18 with clean record can buy three guns.
plenty of people working on that port, you're just whining because open source volunteers aren't working to YOUR schedule? hint for you, don't buy hardware for software that isn't released yet.
governmetn has has given go-ahead to manned asteroid exploration and two-asteroid mission, way beyond what the Chinese will be capable of in 12 years
the singularity has already happened, but it is not a purely computational device. instead, it is made of three things: people, the internet, and computers. Google, facebook, twitter, ebay, amazon, major news sites are all part of it.
Deduplication typically isn't done by the operating system in production systems, it is a feature of enterprise grade storage, backup and archival systems.
Snapshots and encryption can be done in GNU/Linux, or done outside the OS.
What enterprise grade storage/backup/archival systems are you using, the obvious solution will already be evident from that answer in most cases.
opensolaris is long dead. OpenIndiana has never put out a stable release and never met their 2011 q1 stable release target. they put out a development release once in a while, but that is NOT production grade nor matained at a level suitable for production use
what planet do you live on? drug possession only (not dealing) is 80% of those imprisoned for drug-related crimes.
actually most client/server file systems can be DOS'd by too many requests.....local access generally implies the ablility to clog things up
there is no reason most govenment employees need a pc connected to the internet. they should be using the equivalent of a dumb terminal that can only access relevant apps running on a server. instead, government employees use their pc as entertainment device. past time to take away their toys and give them a one-use tool
quite true and I'm sad. I want the end of the silicon roadmap as soon as possible
How about risk, as your rocket may fail to achieve orbit.
Of course, cost is also realistic consideration, talk of "launching something into the sun" is made by people who don't understand orbital mechanics. The large delta-V for even reaching mercury is fearsome for a half ton object like the MESSENGER probe. we don't have the rockets to send 80,000 tons of nuclear fuel to the sun, nor the trillions of dollars to build such a fleet.
But the truth is our "spent fuel" is actually usable fuel, a gold mine of energy that can release seven or more times that which we've extracted so far, and at the end would leave only isotopes with very short decay time. we should not dispose of it but burn it in modern reactor designs.
People who choose a superior UI should be bitch slapped by those too ignornant to recognize what an impediment to productivity Unity is? that's funny
The end sentence was written by someone who has watched change over 50 years: major cities have gone bankrupt, economies shift from agrarian to industrial, global superpower fall while another is rising......a change that happenes over a century is far different from the ocean rising two point some feet tomorrow, and temperature gradually changing over the decades. Life will move, adapt, change as it always has.
what nonsense. what is the value of all property in Detroit 50 years ago compared to now? over a timespan of even half a century people can move, things can radically change. new things can be built, old things abandoned, foundations and streets can be raised.
get real, no need for travel. summit can be held online. meetings and forums can be done online. development can be done online.
I just saved FreeBSD a cool half million.
More precise modeling alows IPCC climate report to backstep from previous hysterical claims and hoopla that every recent unusual weather event was a harbinger of doom to come.
Sea level rise in next century, not even a meter. Hurricanes & sever storms, somewhat LESS of them. Arid areas, become slightly more arid and areas with frequent precipitation have somewhat more rain. Total temperature rise in next 100 years, 2 degrees C on top of the 1 degree C rise over 20th century.
In short, not a doomsday scenario, not the end of the world.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/science-hone-climate-change-warnings/story?id=17906408#.UMVJntHQQSk
We do know why time (direction of entropy) goes one way, the root of the issue is called "symmetry breaking". News for you, we do know the progression of time in the past 14 billion years, we can see it and can see what occured. We can even see the transition from an electromagnetically opaque early universe to the present situation when hydrogen atoms first formed. We can see the expansion of the universe accelerating. There is nothing that has been observed in science that requires the need of your imaginary friend or the nonsensical mystic writings.