More to the point, some geeks and tinkers can overcome personal tendencies towards toe-gazing and mumbling in order to get access to tools and hardware far beyond their own ability to purchase, install, or maintain.
Trust me. I could become the friendliest damn geek in South Texas if it got me routine access to welding booths, a full power wood shop, plasma cutters, and CNC gear.
But of course, I'm not in South Texas, so this is unhelpful to me.
Didn't there used to be some slashdot option to not display articles from editors or submitters who clearly have nothing to say and no value to add? I seem to recall using it to mute some pretty grevious submitter-trolls in the past.
Can't seem to find it now in Slashdot's Brave New World of terribad UI design.
Pfff. Car manufacturers tape up the air intakes and door seams on their cars to do fuel economy runs, just to eek out the every last 0.1mpg. Running your car like that for any reasonable period of time would wreck the engine pretty quick.
Does any manufacturer report their own measured mileage? Within the US, the only number that matters is measured by the EPA, on a dynamometer.
It's a good thing that Society At Large is wealthy, powerful, and politically connected.
No, wait. It's the corps, the plutocrats, the pigopolists that are. A damn shame about how the Golden Rule works.
Get used to not having an Internet as we have always recognized it.
For the last twenty years, I have predicted that Eternal September would result in an Internet not meaningfully distinguishable from Cable TV. Nothing's changed my mind so far.
The wikipedia article about Red Storm Rising specifically state that the Soviet invasion of Iceland and the huge airborne anti-ship missile attack on the American carrier task force were played out tabletop before being written.
I found this fascinating writeup of the gaming sessions that led up to some of the most interesting naval combat fiction ever written, IMHO.
Wrong on both counts there. For one, that's not an argument trotted out by anyone. It's a blatant strawman. I know of the argument you're referring to, and it's more complicated than that.
For two, even if it were an argument, this doesn't even refute it. You've had a suspicious event and a possible explanation that fits your worldview handed to you. The entire "refutation" comes from confirmation bias.
Well, I suppose Hanlon's Razor might be appropriate here.
But I would counter with Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
I suspect some small fraction of that 3% isn't actively illiterate, but simply unread enough to not recognize the difference between aliterate and illiterate... or to recognize that aliterate is a legitimate word which is not merely another synonym for "illiterate".
Depending on the T-shirt, the slogal might have to say "I saved Yahoo! public embarrasement and millions of dollars in damages, and all I got was a discount on this lousy T-shirt." to be perfectly accurate.
A previous poster pointed out that supermarket bakeries custom-fabbing decorative elements is one possibility. The often work to-order, and don't usually have the customer waiting around for a custom cake to be finished, so 3d printing sugar or plastic decorative gew-gaws isn't much different than inkjet printing grandma's and grandpa's wedding picture onto starch film, which is done all the time right now.
I suspect that's where 3d printing will come into its own in this arena: processes that already offer custom creation, such as deli and bakery.
Most stuff will still be bulk, and as you say, it might be wiser and cheaper for the bakery to buy a few hundred pre-made Dora the Explora cupcake decoration thingies and keep 'em in stock, rather than custom-forming each one.
(My IP paranoia makes me think unless there's a pretty strong licensing regime available, a supermarket could get in trouble for printing some media property stuff without rights-holder permissions, just because Soccer Mom orders bootleg Spiderman stuff for Billy's 6th birthday cake.)
Has it really degraded? Thanks to Gnome Shell we now have Cinnamon.
That's an unreasonably optimistic way to view it. Comparable to a historian cheerfully commenting that the Holocaust wasn't bad; thanks to it, the world has the state of Israel.
Why do you think most dealships don't have online pricing and ordering?
Face-to-smarmy-face "negotiation" leaves very little evidence. A website remains out there to pick apart, criticise, and even level formal charges of false advertising.
Tesla needs to suck it up and aspire to be more ethical than their competition. It's not as if their ridiculous and misleading pricing calculator ever tipped a sale decision. People who are buying a Tesla are buying it regardless of cost.
Their Error'd series is chock full'o this kind of failage.
The only risk is that someone's already submitted a screenie of any given inappopriate BSOD, but the only way to know is to try. Or read it through first.
Slashdot Mirror
More to the point, some geeks and tinkers can overcome personal tendencies towards toe-gazing and mumbling in order to get access to tools and hardware far beyond their own ability to purchase, install, or maintain.
Trust me. I could become the friendliest damn geek in South Texas if it got me routine access to welding booths, a full power wood shop, plasma cutters, and CNC gear.
But of course, I'm not in South Texas, so this is unhelpful to me.
It works for dwarves.
Clearly, what's being prototyped here is a hybrid of Dwarf Fortress and Kerbal Space Program.
Didn't there used to be some slashdot option to not display articles from editors or submitters who clearly have nothing to say and no value to add? I seem to recall using it to mute some pretty grevious submitter-trolls in the past.
Can't seem to find it now in Slashdot's Brave New World of terribad UI design.
To summarize, "History is bunk".
Usually spoken by someone who believes themselves immune to Santayana's Law: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Pfff. Car manufacturers tape up the air intakes and door seams on their cars to do fuel economy runs, just to eek out the every last 0.1mpg. Running your car like that for any reasonable period of time would wreck the engine pretty quick.
Does any manufacturer report their own measured mileage? Within the US, the only number that matters is measured by the EPA, on a dynamometer.
It's a good thing that Society At Large is wealthy, powerful, and politically connected.
No, wait. It's the corps, the plutocrats, the pigopolists that are. A damn shame about how the Golden Rule works.
Get used to not having an Internet as we have always recognized it.
For the last twenty years, I have predicted that Eternal September would result in an Internet not meaningfully distinguishable from Cable TV. Nothing's changed my mind so far.
There's been GUN VIOLENCE in the District of Columbia!
That's one thing that always pissed me off about Fallout New Vegas: not nearly enough explosive atomic cars.
The other thing: the few there are, are always where I'm trying to take cover from yet another Caesar's Legion assassin squad attack.
Sheltering from incoming small-arms fire: good idea. Sheltering behind unstable explosive nuclear car: not so much.
Nonsense, it's lunchtime at the shoreside campground at the dolphin sanctuary.
"Food, for all in tents, and porpoises!"
Clancy and gaming is an interesting topic.
Much of Red Storm Rising was modeled largely on naval combat simulations using a table-top minatures game that evolved into the Harpoon video game franchise.
The wikipedia article about Red Storm Rising specifically state that the Soviet invasion of Iceland and the huge airborne anti-ship missile attack on the American carrier task force were played out tabletop before being written.
I found this fascinating writeup of the gaming sessions that led up to some of the most interesting naval combat fiction ever written, IMHO.
Wrong on both counts there. For one, that's not an argument trotted out by anyone. It's a blatant strawman. I know of the argument you're referring to, and it's more complicated than that.
For two, even if it were an argument, this doesn't even refute it. You've had a suspicious event and a possible explanation that fits your worldview handed to you. The entire "refutation" comes from confirmation bias.
Well, I suppose Hanlon's Razor might be appropriate here.
But I would counter with Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
I suspect some small fraction of that 3% isn't actively illiterate, but simply unread enough to not recognize the difference between aliterate and illiterate... or to recognize that aliterate is a legitimate word which is not merely another synonym for "illiterate".
Yeah.
Too heavy-handed to be a worthwhile troll. Too batshit insane to be taken seriously. Lame.
Depending on the T-shirt, the slogal might have to say "I saved Yahoo! public embarrasement and millions of dollars in damages, and all I got was a discount on this lousy T-shirt." to be perfectly accurate.
How did this SlashBI trash get into a main channel here?
Oh, "Apple". Never mind. Carry on.
A previous poster pointed out that supermarket bakeries custom-fabbing decorative elements is one possibility. The often work to-order, and don't usually have the customer waiting around for a custom cake to be finished, so 3d printing sugar or plastic decorative gew-gaws isn't much different than inkjet printing grandma's and grandpa's wedding picture onto starch film, which is done all the time right now.
I suspect that's where 3d printing will come into its own in this arena: processes that already offer custom creation, such as deli and bakery.
Most stuff will still be bulk, and as you say, it might be wiser and cheaper for the bakery to buy a few hundred pre-made Dora the Explora cupcake decoration thingies and keep 'em in stock, rather than custom-forming each one.
(My IP paranoia makes me think unless there's a pretty strong licensing regime available, a supermarket could get in trouble for printing some media property stuff without rights-holder permissions, just because Soccer Mom orders bootleg Spiderman stuff for Billy's 6th birthday cake.)
Has it really degraded? Thanks to Gnome Shell we now have Cinnamon.
That's an unreasonably optimistic way to view it. Comparable to a historian cheerfully commenting that the Holocaust wasn't bad; thanks to it, the world has the state of Israel.
Magazine-fed zombie gun.
No, not a gun to shoot zombies with. A gun to shoot zombies at other things.
Take that, you pitiful fast zombies. Nothing says fast like "muzzle velocity".
Why do you think most dealships don't have online pricing and ordering?
Face-to-smarmy-face "negotiation" leaves very little evidence. A website remains out there to pick apart, criticise, and even level formal charges of false advertising.
Tesla needs to suck it up and aspire to be more ethical than their competition. It's not as if their ridiculous and misleading pricing calculator ever tipped a sale decision. People who are buying a Tesla are buying it regardless of cost.
"Performance Artists" fail Turing Test.
Pictures at 11. (Assuming we can find pictures of them adequately clothed.)
The Daily WTF.
Their Error'd series is chock full'o this kind of failage.
The only risk is that someone's already submitted a screenie of any given inappopriate BSOD, but the only way to know is to try. Or read it through first.
Science is about copying.
"If I have seen further it is by paying my proper license fees to stand on the shoulders of giants."
-- Sir Isaac Newton, according to next year's California standard textbooks about science
Mongo? Santa Maria!
Some Roman dude, I think.
Actually, it needs to be fixed, well.
Installing Gnome is an example of fixing something badly.
OTOH, installing Windows is an example of breaking something. Whether you consider it doing this well or badly is subject to debate.