considering that out of the 1000 people 75% probably didn't hear about 3D printers before the news talked about 3D printed guns then yea there is a sample bias.
3D printers are a niche. they aren't talked about very often. Most people don't realize that you can upload a design and have a computer build a plastic model of something in an hour. Even things like CNC machines and laser cutters in the minds of average citizens are more hollywoodized than reality.
Put this into perspective. In 1970 a man earning $35,000 a year could afford to own a home, a car, and afford to have his wife stay at home to raise the kids. If the wife worked too then they probably had a second summer cabin somewhere.
in 2010 a man earning $35,000 is barely living above the poverty line.(depending on location) you can't support a wife to raise the kids, let alone anything else.
The average worker in the USA in 1970 earned $19.20 In 2010 the average worker earned $19.70
In 1970 the average CEO earned $500,000 in 2010 the average CEO earned $5,000,000
Now tell me what is wrong with that picture? Circuit city is my favorite example. in 2008 after a year of bad sales the CEO of circuit city came up with a plan to save $10 million over 3 years. He fired the top 3,000 highest paid non mangers and rehired new people in their place earning minimum wage. Wall street was happy, and he and the board paid themselves $5 million in bonuses immediately.
With in a year Circuit city was gone completely. why? because he fired the top 3000 sales people. He could have saved $10 million dollars immediately that year by cutting his and the rest of the executive boards salaries. They weren't doing anything anyways.
executive and upper level bonuses have gone out of control. Goldman Sachs had to borrow money from he US Government so it could pay bonuses. I always thought that if the company did poorly bonuses were to be cut first not last, but for the rich they payout bonuses and then close the company down.
Apple can switch to AMD, or apple controls the software, and the base OS is fairly cross platform, while the upper levels don't use much of platform specific optimizations.
take a look at windows RT/ Windows 8 and compare it to Apple moving from PowerPC to Intel.
um if you can't afford a lawyer then you can't afford to retain one.
Lawyers are only for the rich, if your not rich you are going to get screwed. Same goes for health insurance. if your rich enough that you don't need health insurance you can actually afford to pay for it.
Please tell me he didn't demonstrate rocketry and thrust by shoving a firecracker up someone's butt and lighting it.
Now we know the poles both move and flip. The actual pole movements would be attributed the spin of the core of the Earth compared to the spin of the mantel factoring in the wobble and tilt.
If they corrected for all that I would be amazed. Because that is similar to balancing a pin on a spinning basketball and knowing which way it will lean at any given microsecond
The autonomous long duration drones your talking about are literally small planes. They will not be allowed not take off from conventional airfields all by themselves. they might fly most of the day by themselves using preprogrammed routes but someone will still have to be in a control room watching the controls and camera's.
The smaller autonomous drones like the parrot have really short flight times of 20-30 minutes. that is only about long enough to chase a single suspect around the block, and they won't travel fast enough if they get into a car.
Lastly you have maintenance more flight time, is more maintenance. Police cars get overhauled a lot. Drones will require even more. Not only that but you need specialized aircraft mechanics to do the work on them. Because the first drone to fall from the sky and wipe out somebodies living room, because someone didn't check a spar for structural integrity will cause all sorts of problems.
The big thing is drones are less expensive than a helicopter but more so than cameras.
You need trained pilots/operators and still are limited by range. You have bandwidth issues(if you think a 2GB cap on your cell is bad try flying a plane with that bandwidth. I doubt the military will allow sat links.
30,000 drones sounds like a lot but with some 20,000 municipal regions, 3,000+ counties, you are talking about a lot of area to cover.
Combine that with massively cash strapped local/city/state governments I wouldn't worry to much about drones in everyday use.
I would expect police to have 2-3 drones to replace each helicopter they currently fly along with maybe 1-2 dozen AR parrot sized versions for buildings and foot pursuits. but communication ranges will be the limiting factors. The wireless spectrum just isn't cut out for such things. It will limit large scale deployments. (you can't use cellular if the police can cut cell service to an area)
nutritional value is easy enough. However taste is another matter. If you have ever had ground steak, ground burger, and ground venison, you can taste the difference. muscle that has been grown invitro I expect will have it's own unique taste, Electrical stimulus exercises isn't the same as an animal running through a field.
That's simple. We have to stop pretending we are the worlds police force and only super power, since we no longer can finically afford to be either.
The USA is in fiscal default. As a country we have been living so far beyond our means for the last 40 years that the credit card bill will have to be paid by Generation X's great grand children.
That is how far we have fallen. We stop pretending to keep the peace and let some one else step up. If no one else does the world will descend into violence and people will remember fondly the good old days when the USA kept the peace between nations.
take the long view. the USA really really needs to let it go.
Assad, Hussien,Murbak, etc (Syria, Iraq, Egypt) where the only middle east countries where christians could actually live peacefully with muslims. It was precisely because they were violent oppressive regimes that they were able to tone down the violence between sunni and shite muslims to allow even basic freedoms for other religions.
Without those brutal dictators, those countries are becoming unlivable for non muslim's first, and then for the local non-dominate version of islam(sunni or shite).
We shouldn't get involved in Syria, because the whole region is going to spiral out of control.
actually with the way things are going islam is going to have a full on civil war between shite, and sunni muslims. Christianity did it is generally called the protestant reformation or european religious wars. and it was entirely ugly. Islam is going to have to do something similar in order to move forward. I would say give peace a chance but that is exactly what they do not want. they want to be right.
Open up the page layout tool, win office 2003, and office 2007/2010.
While the location of it on the menu has changed because of the ribbon the tool it's self is the same.
I really noticed it in outlook 2003/ outlook 2007. I use the edit message button often to add notes to emails. while the location of where that seldom used menu item has changed the dialog boxes that go with it are the same.
think of the menu items like a stack of playing cards. No matter how many times you shuffle them, no matter what game your playing, no matter how many times you mark them, bend them or use them, it is still the same 52 cards.
Windows is like that. They shuffle things around, even update the graphics, every once in a while they even grab a whole new deck. But if you open that deck and look it is still the same. now it just has a new smell.
It isn't just that either. 20 years of legacy code.(windows 95 is currently 18) The developers who wrote the original NTFS, WIN16, WIN32 subsystems, etc are growing old and retiring. Programmers don't like to document code and MSFT was worse than others at it as they were constantly trying to hide the way things worked to limit reverse engineering.
Sure MSFT is moving away from win16, and win32 but so many depend on it(as recently as last year I installed customer software that was written for windows 9X and only had it's data files updated the core software itself hand't been updated since), it is down right scary. Apples approach of forced upgrades sucks for some reasons, but at least the software is being updated.
Take the ribbon, love it or hate it, if you really look at it the ribbon all it does is change the shape of the menu system of earlier versions of office. The exact same dialog boxes are there behind the scenes, showing up when you least expect them.
Even in windows 8 if you look around you can find the old windows 9X series dialog boxes and components in the seldom accessed areas. They are slowly being phased out but they are still there.
Ah but it is the gas the got trapped during the freezing process. CO2 is heavier than air, and in an area where it is cold enough to take gas CO2 and freeze it what percentage of that CO2 was from the overall air, and how big of an air sample did that Co2 fall from?
How do you determine the methodology to figure it out? It won't be exact proportions because the air itself will be freezing and falling the CO2 to the ground.
It isn't that I don't think humans are screwing up their planet, I simply question the scientists who can't model the weather over a 72 hour period reliably thinking they can account for all the variations over a planet.
and comments like that are why businesses are idiots. owning 3 HDTV's is nothing. you are talking about $1500 spread over 10 years.
if you want to look at something look at how a the average CEO today makes 100 times the amount of someone from 1970 but the average employee only makes 1.1 times the amount of someone from 1970.
Where is that money going? it isn't being used to build the economy. it isn't growing businesses. Wall street looks like the recession never happened, with record breaking gains. But the REAL economy is still in massive recovery mode.
Businesses only replace vehicles regularly because they break down, need maintenance etc. There is on going costs with vehicles that give you a real line on when to replace them.
Software will work perfectly right up until it chokes and crashes never to recover. Even if you installed warning lights to come on when something was going wrong slowly in the background, the software doesn't have internal testing to figure it out, and even software that does have some testing is usually impossible to figure out unless your the original programmer.
Also funding the IT dept with X amount doesn't work. for 3 years you use half of X because everything runs smoothly but in year 4 you use 10X to do repair work. During those 3 years you wasted money. money that could have been better used elsewhere. and you still have to pay 10X in year 4
and remember it isn't just the software that needs upgrading when installing new software. It isn't just training. it is the new business methods, the new organizational work flow that also must be upgraded.
2 months ago we upgraded the ERP software. however since it doesn't work exactly like the old software(thank the deities) people are complaining. People take a long time to understand things. little things nag and nag until they become bigger points. With an company of 20 people it has been a headache not because the software and data transfer which itself going about 97% successful(the old software stored some historical data stupidly). The Headaches came from the people who couldn't grasp their way into understanding a new process. From those who had to change how they interacted with the new software.
Lastly when a business saves money today, it gets spent on something else. it doesn't actually get saved.
It is a state right not a federal one. Just like drivers licenses , you can't really regulate it at the federal level. Therefore federal laws are mostly worthless.
and Like pirates with DRM most gun laws only hurt and hinder those who lawfully own the guns. Like the shooting in Newton. The guns were legally locked up and stored. The insane son killed his own mother and then stole her guns. Now gun law would have stopped that.
Lastly they want to ban guns that look like military weapons but don't actually shoot like military weapons. If you made a paintball marker look like an M-16 it would run against the gun laws that just failed. Being that it would have been full auto it could still be illegal under some of the laws in existence.
Take a look at the corporate world and replaces the guns in games with words.
Modern life is a bunch of staged mook fights with the occasional boss fight.
Some lives are like grand theft auto were you steal cars and slap a whore.
Some are like nfl madden extreme
Some are like mine craft where you build stuff(both mundane and awesome)
But most are run through the maze. Deal with the problems that arise. Occasionally fight a boss. If your lucky you can level up quickly but most descend into the grind.
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considering that out of the 1000 people 75% probably didn't hear about 3D printers before the news talked about 3D printed guns then yea there is a sample bias.
3D printers are a niche. they aren't talked about very often. Most people don't realize that you can upload a design and have a computer build a plastic model of something in an hour. Even things like CNC machines and laser cutters in the minds of average citizens are more hollywoodized than reality.
Put this into perspective. In 1970 a man earning $35,000 a year could afford to own a home, a car, and afford to have his wife stay at home to raise the kids. If the wife worked too then they probably had a second summer cabin somewhere.
in 2010 a man earning $35,000 is barely living above the poverty line.(depending on location) you can't support a wife to raise the kids, let alone anything else.
The average worker in the USA in 1970 earned $19.20
In 2010 the average worker earned $19.70
In 1970 the average CEO earned $500,000
in 2010 the average CEO earned $5,000,000
Now tell me what is wrong with that picture? Circuit city is my favorite example. in 2008 after a year of bad sales the CEO of circuit city came up with a plan to save $10 million over 3 years. He fired the top 3,000 highest paid non mangers and rehired new people in their place earning minimum wage. Wall street was happy, and he and the board paid themselves $5 million in bonuses immediately.
With in a year Circuit city was gone completely. why? because he fired the top 3000 sales people. He could have saved $10 million dollars immediately that year by cutting his and the rest of the executive boards salaries. They weren't doing anything anyways.
executive and upper level bonuses have gone out of control. Goldman Sachs had to borrow money from he US Government so it could pay bonuses. I always thought that if the company did poorly bonuses were to be cut first not last, but for the rich they payout bonuses and then close the company down.
Apple can switch to AMD, or apple controls the software, and the base OS is fairly cross platform, while the upper levels don't use much of platform specific optimizations.
take a look at windows RT/ Windows 8 and compare it to Apple moving from PowerPC to Intel.
expensive, demands ecosystem monogamy, and if it has problems you are told your holding it wrong.
I bet they will charge you to return it too.
really? ask dell, HP, levono, and all the other computer makers what a race to the bottom looks like.
No having multiple companies each trying to find an edge to expand into is what makes the market efficient.
um if you can't afford a lawyer then you can't afford to retain one.
Lawyers are only for the rich, if your not rich you are going to get screwed.
Same goes for health insurance. if your rich enough that you don't need health insurance you can actually afford to pay for it.
Please tell me he didn't demonstrate rocketry and thrust by shoving a firecracker up someone's butt and lighting it.
Now we know the poles both move and flip. The actual pole movements would be attributed the spin of the core of the Earth compared to the spin of the mantel factoring in the wobble and tilt.
If they corrected for all that I would be amazed. Because that is similar to balancing a pin on a spinning basketball and knowing which way it will lean at any given microsecond
sure but that is just a scaling problem. The original computers basically required their own generators to power them too.
now your smart phone has more processing power than super computers built in the 1980's
The autonomous long duration drones your talking about are literally small planes. They will not be allowed not take off from conventional airfields all by themselves. they might fly most of the day by themselves using preprogrammed routes but someone will still have to be in a control room watching the controls and camera's.
The smaller autonomous drones like the parrot have really short flight times of 20-30 minutes. that is only about long enough to chase a single suspect around the block, and they won't travel fast enough if they get into a car.
Lastly you have maintenance more flight time, is more maintenance. Police cars get overhauled a lot. Drones will require even more. Not only that but you need specialized aircraft mechanics to do the work on them. Because the first drone to fall from the sky and wipe out somebodies living room, because someone didn't check a spar for structural integrity will cause all sorts of problems.
The big thing is drones are less expensive than a helicopter but more so than cameras.
You need trained pilots/operators and still are limited by range. You have bandwidth issues(if you think a 2GB cap on your cell is bad try flying a plane with that bandwidth. I doubt the military will allow sat links.
30,000 drones sounds like a lot but with some 20,000 municipal regions, 3,000+ counties, you are talking about a lot of area to cover.
Combine that with massively cash strapped local/city/state governments I wouldn't worry to much about drones in everyday use.
I would expect police to have 2-3 drones to replace each helicopter they currently fly along with maybe 1-2 dozen AR parrot sized versions for buildings and foot pursuits. but communication ranges will be the limiting factors. The wireless spectrum just isn't cut out for such things. It will limit large scale deployments. (you can't use cellular if the police can cut cell service to an area)
while your correct about mother milk, the real benefit of a mothers milk is compatible antibodies that jump start the immune system.
nutritional value is easy enough. However taste is another matter. If you have ever had ground steak, ground burger, and ground venison, you can taste the difference. muscle that has been grown invitro I expect will have it's own unique taste, Electrical stimulus exercises isn't the same as an animal running through a field.
That's simple. We have to stop pretending we are the worlds police force and only super power, since we no longer can finically afford to be either.
The USA is in fiscal default. As a country we have been living so far beyond our means for the last 40 years that the credit card bill will have to be paid by Generation X's great grand children.
That is how far we have fallen. We stop pretending to keep the peace and let some one else step up. If no one else does the world will descend into violence and people will remember fondly the good old days when the USA kept the peace between nations.
take the long view. the USA really really needs to let it go.
I hate to defend them but,
Assad, Hussien,Murbak, etc (Syria, Iraq, Egypt) where the only middle east countries where christians could actually live peacefully with muslims. It was precisely because they were violent oppressive regimes that they were able to tone down the violence between sunni and shite muslims to allow even basic freedoms for other religions.
Without those brutal dictators, those countries are becoming unlivable for non muslim's first, and then for the local non-dominate version of islam(sunni or shite).
We shouldn't get involved in Syria, because the whole region is going to spiral out of control.
actually with the way things are going islam is going to have a full on civil war between shite, and sunni muslims. Christianity did it is generally called the protestant reformation or european religious wars. and it was entirely ugly. Islam is going to have to do something similar in order to move forward. I would say give peace a chance but that is exactly what they do not want. they want to be right.
you can see the changes.
Open up the page layout tool, win office 2003, and office 2007/2010.
While the location of it on the menu has changed because of the ribbon the tool it's self is the same.
I really noticed it in outlook 2003/ outlook 2007. I use the edit message button often to add notes to emails. while the location of where that seldom used menu item has changed the dialog boxes that go with it are the same.
think of the menu items like a stack of playing cards. No matter how many times you shuffle them, no matter what game your playing, no matter how many times you mark them, bend them or use them, it is still the same 52 cards.
Windows is like that. They shuffle things around, even update the graphics, every once in a while they even grab a whole new deck. But if you open that deck and look it is still the same. now it just has a new smell.
It isn't just that either. 20 years of legacy code.(windows 95 is currently 18) The developers who wrote the original NTFS, WIN16, WIN32 subsystems, etc are growing old and retiring. Programmers don't like to document code and MSFT was worse than others at it as they were constantly trying to hide the way things worked to limit reverse engineering.
Sure MSFT is moving away from win16, and win32 but so many depend on it(as recently as last year I installed customer software that was written for windows 9X and only had it's data files updated the core software itself hand't been updated since), it is down right scary. Apples approach of forced upgrades sucks for some reasons, but at least the software is being updated.
exactly.
Take the ribbon, love it or hate it, if you really look at it the ribbon all it does is change the shape of the menu system of earlier versions of office. The exact same dialog boxes are there behind the scenes, showing up when you least expect them.
Even in windows 8 if you look around you can find the old windows 9X series dialog boxes and components in the seldom accessed areas. They are slowly being phased out but they are still there.
Ah but it is the gas the got trapped during the freezing process. CO2 is heavier than air, and in an area where it is cold enough to take gas CO2 and freeze it what percentage of that CO2 was from the overall air, and how big of an air sample did that Co2 fall from?
How do you determine the methodology to figure it out? It won't be exact proportions because the air itself will be freezing and falling the CO2 to the ground.
It isn't that I don't think humans are screwing up their planet, I simply question the scientists who can't model the weather over a 72 hour period reliably thinking they can account for all the variations over a planet.
Damn straight they did. And every communist lived in peace with their neighbors.
and comments like that are why businesses are idiots. owning 3 HDTV's is nothing. you are talking about $1500 spread over 10 years.
if you want to look at something look at how a the average CEO today makes 100 times the amount of someone from 1970 but the average employee only makes 1.1 times the amount of someone from 1970.
Where is that money going? it isn't being used to build the economy. it isn't growing businesses. Wall street looks like the recession never happened, with record breaking gains. But the REAL economy is still in massive recovery mode.
Businesses only replace vehicles regularly because they break down, need maintenance etc. There is on going costs with vehicles that give you a real line on when to replace them.
Software will work perfectly right up until it chokes and crashes never to recover. Even if you installed warning lights to come on when something was going wrong slowly in the background, the software doesn't have internal testing to figure it out, and even software that does have some testing is usually impossible to figure out unless your the original programmer.
Also funding the IT dept with X amount doesn't work. for 3 years you use half of X because everything runs smoothly but in year 4 you use 10X to do repair work. During those 3 years you wasted money. money that could have been better used elsewhere. and you still have to pay 10X in year 4
This is exactly true.
and remember it isn't just the software that needs upgrading when installing new software. It isn't just training. it is the new business methods, the new organizational work flow that also must be upgraded.
2 months ago we upgraded the ERP software. however since it doesn't work exactly like the old software(thank the deities) people are complaining. People take a long time to understand things. little things nag and nag until they become bigger points. With an company of 20 people it has been a headache not because the software and data transfer which itself going about 97% successful(the old software stored some historical data stupidly). The Headaches came from the people who couldn't grasp their way into understanding a new process. From those who had to change how they interacted with the new software.
Lastly when a business saves money today, it gets spent on something else. it doesn't actually get saved.
The three real points to gun control are
It is a state right not a federal one. Just like drivers licenses , you can't really regulate it at the federal level. Therefore federal laws are mostly worthless.
and Like pirates with DRM most gun laws only hurt and hinder those who lawfully own the guns. Like the shooting in Newton. The guns were legally locked up and stored. The insane son killed his own mother and then stole her guns. Now gun law would have stopped that.
Lastly they want to ban guns that look like military weapons but don't actually shoot like military weapons. If you made a paintball marker look like an M-16 it would run against the gun laws that just failed. Being that it would have been full auto it could still be illegal under some of the laws in existence.
Take a look at the corporate world and replaces the guns in games with words.
Modern life is a bunch of staged mook fights with the occasional boss fight.
Some lives are like grand theft auto were you steal cars and slap a whore.
Some are like nfl madden extreme
Some are like mine craft where you build stuff(both mundane and awesome)
But most are run through the maze. Deal with the problems that arise. Occasionally fight a boss. If your lucky you can level up quickly but most descend into the grind.