This kind of technology shouldn't be considered much of a threat, yet. If one were inclined to do so, one could simply look on the net for blueprints and make something they wanted from scratch.
So this technology removes the job of going out and purchasing the parts, and then assembling them. Well, maybe the latter. You'd still need to put the raw materials into the printer, and if ink is more expensive than champagne, I don't think many people are going to pay a thousand bucks a month in materials to make a blender or some headphones.
I read on slashdot that HP and M$ were teaming up to make a mac-like computer, more user-friendly than is healthy for ANY computer... is HP pulling our legs, backstabbing M$, or just not picking sides?
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Why waste the floppy, just save it and wait for the Smithsonian to start taking them.
Now they know it's my pr0n from my prints on the magazine, my final product isn't necessary anymore.
This kind of technology shouldn't be considered much of a threat, yet. If one were inclined to do so, one could simply look on the net for blueprints and make something they wanted from scratch.
So this technology removes the job of going out and purchasing the parts, and then assembling them. Well, maybe the latter. You'd still need to put the raw materials into the printer, and if ink is more expensive than champagne, I don't think many people are going to pay a thousand bucks a month in materials to make a blender or some headphones.
If this planet or its satellites were populated by a new species, they could litterally be called "older than dirt"
I read on slashdot that HP and M$ were teaming up to make a mac-like computer, more user-friendly than is healthy for ANY computer... is HP pulling our legs, backstabbing M$, or just not picking sides?
If guys that drive big cars are compensating for small... packages, what could be said about the poor b@st@rd that buys this thing?