Yes. To replace some part, I often just need a file, a vice, and a drill. Just designing it would take longer.
But a few other useful applications for printing come to mind: 1.Printing positives for die casting (very fast design to small scale production). 2. One of a kind items on a scale or with materials where building-up is more practical than removal of material (glass, pottery, houses) Other than that, I agree. Even custom-fitted toilet seats could be done easier than on a printer...
It reminds me of similar fabs like routing circuit boards (also a useful thing but not one that will replace etching) or cutting plywood with a laser printer. It is the lack of "knowledge of machine tools" as you stated for sure, but also the lack of confidence in your own manual skills and the appeal of playing around in a virtual 3d world and then have some machine make it for you.
I'm not sure that it actually will be misused. Printing a gun requires notable access to a 3d printer, a certain degree of cost, patience, and a certain degree of skill with the system. Anyone with that sort of patience certainly isn't committing an impulse crime,....
You're describing the mob.
(Once again this helps big corporations while small mom&pop contract killers are driven out of business.)
The reality is that the US is not becoming a third world country at all, it is just that the wealth is becoming more concentrated in the hands of fewer people.
That's what I was thinking of.
Extreme wealth differences are very typical for 3rd world country. Only one side is the "TV 3rd world" with starving people, but the other side are gated communities with an upper class that surpasses the west in wealth.
As someone that uses both the shell and GUI config options, what's wrong with a choice? Sometimes configuring things through a GUI is faster. I'm all for that, especially if it can take less of my time.
For running scripted stuff, obviously the shell is better. Both are made for specific purposes.
Nothing is wrong with a GUI. I like it too, but the introduction of a GUI is somehow always followed by a herd of morons. And I don't know the causality there. Is it the people who can get something to work by just clicking defaults and then calling themselves experts, the company that can save money by employing people who really don't know what they're clicking on, or the GUIs that always seem designed to hide the complicated details so you can make it run even if you have no clue?
The outcome is the same, whether it is a mail server that then works perfectly with the newest windows, but not with imap, web developer tools that produce html with a new style for every paragraph, or a content management system that can't find its own links.
The sad truth is, this shouldn't get a +1 Funny but a +1 Informative
I overheard a couple of "IT managers" at a University rave about their server management tools. If I understood correctly the Excel server is setup by clicking option boxes.
There are countries outside the US. They have more than two parties. The Green party actually makes it into parliament. These countries are called "democracies".
No, it's general knowledge about what public street you were on at the time of the photo. It doesn't tell them anything about a specific place you are going. At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
Sorry. But you don't see the whole picture. License plate readers are not just single photos. It is about movement of individuals And not just one suspect, but everyone. It is automated and turns the where-abouts of individuals into a searchable database. Combined with security cameras, face recognition, and cell phone records they can give you a very accurate description of someone's movements.
So what? NY (eh, Bloomberg) is proud, that with their new technology (provided by Microsoft) they can automatically search for certain suspects. Looking for someone in a blue jacket? They can now automatically pull up surveillance of anyone in a blue jacket. And they keep video records for the last 30 days (Other records for years). They can probably match that to what car that person drove, what store he/she entered (nice pictures there), or whether she/he used the subway. They are working on software to automatically detect suspicious activity.
Once you have all this data, it would be very easy for some other unnamed agency to use it to match movement data of different individuals and come up with a list of possible contacts.
Now imagine that technology in the hand of a repressive police state. The White Rose (students who distributed leaflets against Hitler) lasted about 9 months before they were beheaded. A janitor caught them distributing leaflets. With Bloomberg/Microsoft's new Information Awareness they would last a couple hours.
The US - still the best place to live and the whole "debt" issue is really not a huge deal.
No. First, it's not the "best place to live". Not the worst either, but the "best" depends on your values and how much weight you assign to each of them. Second, "the US" is also bogus. Differences in life style, political climate, and culture can be just largee within the US as when moving from a "nice" place (=place you like) in Europe to a "nice" place in the US.
Since open proxies aren't that abundant anymore, this is an article about drawing with a mouse - for people who don't own one, have never seen one, and don't know where to get it.
Does anyone seriously think hyperbole like this helps anyone?
But of course!
Hyperbole is the bread of the downtrodden masses. It is the axe that will fall on the neck of the oppressor.
It is the light that brightens the future, the candle by which we read the manifestos on our ipads.
No, It actually makes sense.
By 2020 Mittens will have completed his second term and the only way to stay in power is to have the Senate declare him Arch-Washington for life. This will cause uprisings in the blue quarantine zones. In order to deal with the protesters, TSA units will have to be deployed. But since this would leave the castles vulnerable to the peasants, guard units need to be withdrawn from the war on terror. And with fewer units on the ground, the liberation of Ottawa and with it operation "Free at Last" will ultimately fail.
See, it makes sense.
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Now all the blogs can add a new story on how to connect an arduino to your Raspberry PI v2 ..
Yes. To replace some part, I often just need a file, a vice, and a drill. Just designing it would take longer. But a few other useful applications for printing come to mind: 1.Printing positives for die casting (very fast design to small scale production). 2. One of a kind items on a scale or with materials where building-up is more practical than removal of material (glass, pottery, houses) Other than that, I agree. Even custom-fitted toilet seats could be done easier than on a printer...
It reminds me of similar fabs like routing circuit boards (also a useful thing but not one that will replace etching) or cutting plywood with a laser printer. It is the lack of "knowledge of machine tools" as you stated for sure, but also the lack of confidence in your own manual skills and the appeal of playing around in a virtual 3d world and then have some machine make it for you.
I'm not sure that it actually will be misused. Printing a gun requires notable access to a 3d printer, a certain degree of cost, patience, and a certain degree of skill with the system. Anyone with that sort of patience certainly isn't committing an impulse crime, ....
You're describing the mob.
(Once again this helps big corporations while small mom&pop contract killers are driven out of business.)
The reality is that the US is not becoming a third world country at all, it is just that the wealth is becoming more concentrated in the hands of fewer people.
That's what I was thinking of.
Extreme wealth differences are very typical for 3rd world country. Only one side is the "TV 3rd world" with starving people, but the other side are gated communities with an upper class that surpasses the west in wealth.
even in my company 12 hour shifts are common, in the hearland of the USA ... boo who for the Asians?
At least you had the chance to vote for politicians that kill unions, defund OSHA, and turn the US into a third world country.
What's wrong with option boxes?
As someone that uses both the shell and GUI config options, what's wrong with a choice? Sometimes configuring things through a GUI is faster. I'm all for that, especially if it can take less of my time.
For running scripted stuff, obviously the shell is better. Both are made for specific purposes.
Nothing is wrong with a GUI. I like it too, but the introduction of a GUI is somehow always followed by a herd of morons. And I don't know the causality there. Is it the people who can get something to work by just clicking defaults and then calling themselves experts, the company that can save money by employing people who really don't know what they're clicking on, or the GUIs that always seem designed to hide the complicated details so you can make it run even if you have no clue?
The outcome is the same, whether it is a mail server that then works perfectly with the newest windows, but not with imap, web developer tools that produce html with a new style for every paragraph, or a content management system that can't find its own links.
Quoting Reuters: 'The exoskeleton is activated by the wearer tilting their balance to indicate the desire to take a step.
So if you stand atop a cliff and look down, the thing takes a step forward?
Nice.
Didn't the owner of Segway die exactly this way?
... it will need Metro-style management tools!
The sad truth is, this shouldn't get a +1 Funny but a +1 Informative
I overheard a couple of "IT managers" at a University rave about their server management tools. If I understood correctly the Excel server is setup by clicking option boxes.
This will totally make a difference.
Ignoring the sarcasm.. yes, it will.
There are countries outside the US. They have more than two parties. The Green party actually makes it into parliament. These countries are called "democracies".
The first person to make the "go at night" joke should be permabanned.
Calling the "go at night" proposal a joke, can only mean you didn't grow up in a Creationist state.
Linus must be screaming inside.
Linus never allows his screaming to stay on the inside
I am pretty sure that in the average american household, there are more bacteria immune to Triclosan per cubic feet than New York has inhabitants.
See, here's the problem: Germ infested American households.
I don't want to go into detail, but here some highlights of my plan to reduce overuse of antimicrobials:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
No, it's general knowledge about what public street you were on at the time of the photo. It doesn't tell them anything about a specific place you are going. At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
Sorry. But you don't see the whole picture. License plate readers are not just single photos. It is about movement of individuals And not just one suspect, but everyone. It is automated and turns the where-abouts of individuals into a searchable database. Combined with security cameras, face recognition, and cell phone records they can give you a very accurate description of someone's movements.
So what? NY (eh, Bloomberg) is proud, that with their new technology (provided by Microsoft) they can automatically search for certain suspects. Looking for someone in a blue jacket? They can now automatically pull up surveillance of anyone in a blue jacket. And they keep video records for the last 30 days (Other records for years). They can probably match that to what car that person drove, what store he/she entered (nice pictures there), or whether she/he used the subway. They are working on software to automatically detect suspicious activity.
Once you have all this data, it would be very easy for some other unnamed agency to use it to match movement data of different individuals and come up with a list of possible contacts.
Now imagine that technology in the hand of a repressive police state. The White Rose (students who distributed leaflets against Hitler) lasted about 9 months before they were beheaded. A janitor caught them distributing leaflets. With Bloomberg/Microsoft's new Information Awareness they would last a couple hours.
It is customary to reply with an xkcd link.
But today it might be dilbert that sums it up the best.
The US - still the best place to live and the whole "debt" issue is really not a huge deal.
No. First, it's not the "best place to live". Not the worst either, but the "best" depends on your values and how much weight you assign to each of them. Second, "the US" is also bogus. Differences in life style, political climate, and culture can be just largee within the US as when moving from a "nice" place (=place you like) in Europe to a "nice" place in the US.
Reminds me of Cartman's anal probe.
A rectanna is a cantenna that uses your body's capacitance for tuning. A process called 'sqeezing' will tune it to a different resonance
It's an American missile. ...
So there you have it. 1700 miles per second. That'll put the fear of God into those godless commies.
But second is also used in the Socialist International (SI) System. To be truly American you would have to replace it with something more patriotic.
This isn't a jet-plane. It's a fucking missile.
Okay. So it could blow up London in about an hour.
Since in the goodol'days NASA got a jump-start with rockets originally designed to reach London, blowing up London adds a very nice touch.
It's so metal
No.
"Field of Corpses" sounds more like a punk band.
Judging by the comments, you are not the only programmer who doesn't know the difference between Mathlab and a Methlab.
Even worse.
Since open proxies aren't that abundant anymore, this is an article about drawing with a mouse - for people who don't own one, have never seen one, and don't know where to get it.
All I see is a headline with a new U.S. record !
Go team USA!
Does anyone seriously think hyperbole like this helps anyone?
But of course!
Hyperbole is the bread of the downtrodden masses. It is the axe that will fall on the neck of the oppressor. It is the light that brightens the future, the candle by which we read the manifestos on our ipads.
..well, a repost of my earlier first post.
Someone took it down.
No, It actually makes sense.
By 2020 Mittens will have completed his second term and the only way to stay in power is to have the Senate declare him Arch-Washington for life. This will cause uprisings in the blue quarantine zones. In order to deal with the protesters, TSA units will have to be deployed. But since this would leave the castles vulnerable to the peasants, guard units need to be withdrawn from the war on terror. And with fewer units on the ground, the liberation of Ottawa and with it operation "Free at Last" will ultimately fail.
See, it makes sense.