DeviantArt has a better business model than Instagram. Some lovely content there, too -- much of it available for sale, by content makers willing to work on commission.
"Everything that is not mandatory is forbidden. Everything that is not forbidden is mandatory."
A lovely character study, full of wince-able observations and contrasts on the human condition from the point of view of young Arthur. It's from a book;)
Kevlar weave shouldn't be that difficult to source; I have a pair of jeans with large areas of Kevlar cloth reinforcement in them. Bought it at the motorcycle shop. Excellent way to avoid a bumectomy in the event of a get-off.
“This is not a model,” NASA physicist Les Johnson says as we gaze at the 35-foot-tall assemblage of pipes, nozzles, and shielding. “This is an honest-to-goodness nuclear rocket engine.”
-- From Nat.Geographic (link above)
Just think -- if you could hack into a network of cars and knew which cars played which musical notes, you could play merry havoc during gridlock by playing an orchestra of selected traffic. You'd be in control! Bieber for road rage, Star Wars theme at the red lights, a nice tango for the cloverleaf intersections -- the mind boggles!
Security not important for a medical office? Uh, run. Run. No problem with exiting RIM, but... malpractice suit for inappropriate disclosure of patient data? Just run.
The sales of 3D printers, however, *can* scale. The logistic issue won't be about serial manufacturing throughput, it'll be about parallel manufacturing throughput. If it would some day take a day to print an individual laptop, then that level of throughput would likely be acceptable to a single individual with a 3D printer.
Business customers with a large PC/Laptop fleet don't really want things to change, because it breaks compatibility and spare parts availability, and change costs money -- especially change that they didn't really need, and hadn't planned on paying for.
This isn't what the manufacturers want, however; they want to sell kit, and a good way to do that is to have a customer base they believe is loyal, and render their products obsolete on a regular basis. The change doesn't have to be better, just different. Different enough to be incompatible with the current generation. Oh, and wrap up support of the old gear as soon as you can, so the customers have to change over their fleet.
I've noticed this happening during a gig certifying store systems for a major retailer. Really pisses off the retailers, too (beware the irony).
The problem, as I see it, is word size. "Kilometerage" is five syllables, "Mileage" is two. So... why not simply re-define the Mile to equal 1 Kilometer, and we can talk about mileage again. Same for other units, e.g. "Millibar" is a lot easier to say than "Hectopascal".
Yes, comment style, yesss -- the number of times I've seen "increment j by one" instead of "where J = initial position in string" and wanted to beat the writer with a hockey stick...
I've seen it work with multiple AP's in an office that all had the same SSID. Just cloned the boxes (some cheap Cisco thing, can't remember the part number) and never had any issues with conflicts.
Indeed. Perhaps not made with the same steel, but definitely with the same type of steel.
Then, by luck or good management, there is Swedish steel. I wonder if that had something to do with the quality of Viking swords. Ever try to drill through a piece of an old Swedish-built Husqvarna motocrosser to safety-wire it? Stuff is harder than the hubs of hell.
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DeviantArt has a better business model than Instagram. Some lovely content there, too -- much of it available for sale, by content makers willing to work on commission.
"There must always be a Groklaw."
-- Bolvar Fordring (almost)
"That's very done."
-- The Ant (The Once and Future King)
"Everything that is not mandatory is forbidden. Everything that is not forbidden is mandatory."
A lovely character study, full of wince-able observations and contrasts on the human condition from the point of view of young Arthur. ;)
It's from a book
"rote memorisation, Clara, not "root memorisation".
Sort of like Loy Yang and the city of Traralgon, then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loy_Yang_Power_Station
... it'll be a long time before we can harness elemental transmutation as an industrial process.
It's one hell of an excellent long-term goal to pursue, though, isn't it?
Kevlar weave shouldn't be that difficult to source; I have a pair of jeans with large areas of Kevlar cloth reinforcement in them. Bought it at the motorcycle shop. Excellent way to avoid a bumectomy in the event of a get-off.
"It's amazing what you can do with a simple salt shaker."
-- DeForest Kelly
Neil Young.
“This is not a model,” NASA physicist Les Johnson says as we gaze at the 35-foot-tall assemblage of pipes, nozzles, and shielding. “This is an honest-to-goodness nuclear rocket engine.”
-- From Nat.Geographic (link above)
I'd like to amend Godwin's Law to include any mention of Tony Abbott.
Why does this thread keep reminding me of BOFH?
Ahh, I remember now. It's the hidden ITIL.
Just think -- if you could hack into a network of cars and knew which cars played which musical notes, you could play merry havoc during gridlock by playing an orchestra of selected traffic. You'd be in control! Bieber for road rage, Star Wars theme at the red lights, a nice tango for the cloverleaf intersections -- the mind boggles!
Security not important for a medical office? ... malpractice suit for inappropriate disclosure of patient data?
Uh, run. Run.
No problem with exiting RIM, but
Just run.
The sales of 3D printers, however, *can* scale. The logistic issue won't be about serial manufacturing throughput, it'll be about parallel manufacturing throughput. If it would some day take a day to print an individual laptop, then that level of throughput would likely be acceptable to a single individual with a 3D printer.
It's planned obsolesence vs. company planning.
Business customers with a large PC/Laptop fleet don't really want things to change, because it breaks compatibility and spare parts availability, and change costs money -- especially change that they didn't really need, and hadn't planned on paying for.
This isn't what the manufacturers want, however; they want to sell kit, and a good way to do that is to have a customer base they believe is loyal, and render their products obsolete on a regular basis. The change doesn't have to be better, just different. Different enough to be incompatible with the current generation. Oh, and wrap up support of the old gear as soon as you can, so the customers have to change over their fleet.
I've noticed this happening during a gig certifying store systems for a major retailer. Really pisses off the retailers, too (beware the irony).
Make babies for a bigger check.
Does this model actually work, or does it put you further back?
"We lose a little on every sale, but we make up for it in volume."
The problem, as I see it, is word size. "Kilometerage" is five syllables, "Mileage" is two. So ... why not simply re-define the Mile to equal 1 Kilometer, and we can talk about mileage again. Same for other units, e.g. "Millibar" is a lot easier to say than "Hectopascal".
... The other way lies committees and madness.
But you repeat yourself.
Ever build anything out of timber? Metric makes it a lot easier. That's a very domestic sort of thing to do.
Previous sentence broke my brain.
Yes, that was tense.
Simplicity and clarity is the mark of an expert.
Yes, comment style, yesss -- the number of times I've seen "increment j by one" instead of "where J = initial position in string" and wanted to beat the writer with a hockey stick...
I've seen it work with multiple AP's in an office that all had the same SSID. Just cloned the boxes (some cheap Cisco thing, can't remember the part number) and never had any issues with conflicts.
Indeed. Perhaps not made with the same steel, but definitely with the same type of steel.
Then, by luck or good management, there is Swedish steel. I wonder if that had something to do with the quality of Viking swords.
Ever try to drill through a piece of an old Swedish-built Husqvarna motocrosser to safety-wire it? Stuff is harder than the hubs of hell.