What is shown in the article looks like the basic elements from the first 3D packages on the PC 3 decades back.
Any multi-piece design today needs explicit, exact shape and size control if you are going to have function and fit required for produceable & usable assemblies today.
Why and under what conditions would you want your immune system response to go up?
Overactive immune systems do kill people. Inflammation is often an overactive immune system in action. In the lungs it can lead to quick massive pneumonia with aggressive flu virus.
Just exactly how would a person know if their immune system is already "too high"?
The media overuse of the marketing phrase "improved immune system" does a disservice to average consumers.
Many comments have noted comparisons with the past as if a simple comparison establishes a rule, but very few are true. Any time a programmer or engineer wants to make an honest calculation he wants it to be on solid fact.
No politician or journalist has put forth a key HARD FACT to put INCOME & TAX issues in perspective. Why? What is the total tax, license & fee take out of the economy by all forms of government over time? Last time I heard it is over 50%.
Want it to be even WORSE? Add to that the cost of all forms of regulation compliance.
Are we serfs working for a dictatorial government that is now the ruling class with salaries 2-3 times that of their privates sector counterparts?
My new products came out of my need to have a zip tie that "didn't suck". Products are almost ready for retail sales through my website.
It holds well, is not scratchy, is reusable, can form multiple loop, is not bulky and, too boot, is easy to use. And its companion product is good for reusable surface mounting.
I'll just give the YouTube video links which give the overview which gives the website:
Suppose you put in a trigger to "toss a trade" so your "friend" at another firm, which only you and your partner friend know how to trigger or exploit.
The payday could be small enough to set you up for life and still be chump change and pass by an audit or the other normal wins and losses each month and wouldn't be easily found out as long as everyone kept their mouths shut.
This is the danger of electronic algorithmic trading. No doubt there are safeguards in place, but that doesn't mean they can catch an exploit that may only be two lines of code.
Sour grapes by an architect that didn't get in on the design job?
Apple of the future is going to be a company who has spies aimed at it full time. Maintaining physical and electronic security and safety for their crew is going to be #1 to being able to continue to produce great products that don't get knocked off quickly or even before Apple gets their product out on the market.
I don't blame Apple for a "walled garden" approach. Looks sensible. Apple will keep other facilities, too, though, so there will be a wide range of buildings in their whole arena of buildings.
Do what you really love to do and never stop. Stay foolish and investigate the failures. There are more failures than successes and some say more to learn from failures than successes (which are necessarily preceded by many failures).
There are so many variations in engineering and subspecialties that it is impossible to guess where you will actually be in 10 years or train for all of them.
Get to a college/university that REALLY trains you how to problem solve - innovate - generate inversions - do ballpark estimates. Texas A&M & MIT would be up there on the top list for me.
No matter what courses you take, you will never stop reading and learning in engineering or you will stop being an engineer.
If you are doing a form of business with your tablet or phone, do you really want to operate in an environment where security is deliberately compromised?
Do you want your employees carrying compromised machines and potentially have your company's data lifted?
Do you want the potential downtime when cracked devices go awry?
I've often wondered about some families I've known with continual health problems.
I have considered that maybe they did not inherit sufficient "protection" or DNA to give them resistance to certain viruses, fungi and bacteria or maybe more properly the ability to generate such resistance.
Given the article's credit to interbreeding amongst early groups and the variations in today's populations of ancient DNA traces, I am wondering more about my hypothesis.
We humans are very diverse indeed; it is more than skin deep.
l just don't trust Russia now, don't trust their space program to serve the U.S., never trusted them in the past and Putin's statement show me I can't trust them in the future.
Our legislators need to revisit how they direct and fund NASA. It doesn't mean NASA doesn't need to change, but NASA overseeing plans to keep us in space are a matter of the Federal Government's proper duty under the constitution to protect the U.S.'s interests and protect our borders.
If we didn't have patents, few companies would innovate and there would be little reason to spend the tons of money to develop the infrastructure and retail cell phone handsets.
After all, we have all those nice sturdy 5 pount black MaBell rotary dial phones. What else do we NEED!
People who might be bitching about losing a job (at HP, RIMM for instance or MotoM) merely decided to work for a company that decided to follow rather than diligently keep up or LEAD. In some cases they seem to have ignored the factual information coming from both engineers and the marketplace on both hardware speed and ecosystem, in the case of HP.
These things are NOT the fault of the patent system. They are the fault of top management and key engineering decisions.
News articles of the "fluffy kind" do a disservice to people who want to know the truth about "3D printers".
The total cost of a rapid prototype or pre-production part can work out efficiently, but you need some critical items.
1. The "real" 3D model, sized for the process and the end use is needed: Functional differences will exist in the best machines depending on how the models are oriented & built. Hire a designer or get your own 3D modeling & CAD/CAM software, learn it & use it and the cost is anything but trivial. Usually at least $5k not counting your time, unless you get an educational discount.
2. The "good" 3D printers to make strong usable parts are typically SLS laser sintering machines that sinter plastic or metal powders in an inert atmosphere. You do NOT put one of these at home, unless you are Steve Jobs. Figure $500k for a good one.
3. Even the "good" parts from SLS machines often need machining and surface finishing to keep them from looking cruddy and having sizes that make fits come out wrong. I have personally spent 5 hours finishing a small RP modeled part so it would function as intended. It makes for REAL expensive parts.
The only way to keep costs down for good usable "3D printed" parts is to use a Rapid Prototyping job shop and hire or be a good designer yourself.
Lots has been written on the subject of archiving, and with lots of valuable and eventually irreplaceable data, it would pay BIG dividends to read a few books and look at some of the companies that manage data for their living.
Others here have noted the variables with respect to media, hardware & software and the fact that over time they all change and eventually become obsolete. Then comes the factors of where you store it and how many places do you store duplicates in to prevent fire, flood or whatever war from wiping the cache of data out.
Anyone can pay the fee and submit evidence that says that there were the following items of relevant prior art with documentation and the USPTO will review and issue their judgment.
To that extent, if someone patents something that had been done at a college in the 80s, it would be worthwhile submitting the documentation to show it was not a newly "invented" system.
Right now the patent application which is published does NOT reflect the allowed claims, which is typically narrower than what was originally submitted.
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Absolutely correcto on this.
Unfortunately for the "statists", we will have a revolution at one of two stages and they will be dumped.
#1: Ballot box throws them out.
#2: Physical revolution throws them out.
History books are clear on this. I read those certain chapters and watched all those states that have fallen. Some will fall again and again.
Big brother needs to watch you for the good of all.
What is shown in the article looks like the basic elements from the first 3D packages on the PC 3 decades back.
Any multi-piece design today needs explicit, exact shape and size control if you are going to have function and fit required for produceable & usable assemblies today.
Why and under what conditions would you want your immune system response to go up?
Overactive immune systems do kill people. Inflammation is often an overactive immune system in action. In the lungs it can lead to quick massive pneumonia with aggressive flu virus.
Just exactly how would a person know if their immune system is already "too high"?
The media overuse of the marketing phrase "improved immune system" does a disservice to average consumers.
Know when to Fold Em.
If you don't know who mark is at the poker table, you are it.
Many comments have noted comparisons with the past as if a simple comparison establishes a rule, but very few are true. Any time a programmer or engineer wants to make an honest calculation he wants it to be on solid fact.
No politician or journalist has put forth a key HARD FACT to put INCOME & TAX issues in perspective. Why? What is the total tax, license & fee take out of the economy by all forms of government over time? Last time I heard it is over 50%.
Want it to be even WORSE? Add to that the cost of all forms of regulation compliance.
Are we serfs working for a dictatorial government that is now the ruling class with salaries 2-3 times that of their privates sector counterparts?
My new products came out of my need to have a zip tie that "didn't suck". Products are almost ready for retail sales through my website.
It holds well, is not scratchy, is reusable, can form multiple loop, is not bulky and, too boot, is easy to use. And its companion product is good for reusable surface mounting.
I'll just give the YouTube video links which give the overview which gives the website:
EZTY Use in 60 Seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxPVe1GFoiw
EZTY Overview in 60 Seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWw-RzEY3tQ
PyramidTY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XniSxUbWOt4
Suppose you put in a trigger to "toss a trade" so your "friend" at another firm, which only you and your partner friend know how to trigger or exploit.
The payday could be small enough to set you up for life and still be chump change and pass by an audit or the other normal wins and losses each month and wouldn't be easily found out as long as everyone kept their mouths shut.
This is the danger of electronic algorithmic trading. No doubt there are safeguards in place, but that doesn't mean they can catch an exploit that may only be two lines of code.
Sour grapes by an architect that didn't get in on the design job?
Apple of the future is going to be a company who has spies aimed at it full time. Maintaining physical and electronic security and safety for their crew is going to be #1 to being able to continue to produce great products that don't get knocked off quickly or even before Apple gets their product out on the market.
I don't blame Apple for a "walled garden" approach. Looks sensible. Apple will keep other facilities, too, though, so there will be a wide range of buildings in their whole arena of buildings.
It was a lot harder with 6 rows of keys.
Damned keyboard had 90 keys and prepared hot metal type to then do the printing.
In the days of old, when type was hot
And papers indeed were pressed
Slugs were laid in a metal slot
And papers came out of press
Do what you really love to do and never stop. Stay foolish and investigate the failures. There are more failures than successes and some say more to learn from failures than successes (which are necessarily preceded by many failures).
There are so many variations in engineering and subspecialties that it is impossible to guess where you will actually be in 10 years or train for all of them.
Get to a college/university that REALLY trains you how to problem solve - innovate - generate inversions - do ballpark estimates. Texas A&M & MIT would be up there on the top list for me.
No matter what courses you take, you will never stop reading and learning in engineering or you will stop being an engineer.
Comes to mind.
If you are doing a form of business with your tablet or phone, do you really want to operate in an environment where security is deliberately compromised?
Do you want your employees carrying compromised machines and potentially have your company's data lifted?
Do you want the potential downtime when cracked devices go awry?
Do you have that much free time to play?
I've often wondered about some families I've known with continual health problems.
I have considered that maybe they did not inherit sufficient "protection" or DNA to give them resistance to certain viruses, fungi and bacteria or maybe more properly the ability to generate such resistance.
Given the article's credit to interbreeding amongst early groups and the variations in today's populations of ancient DNA traces, I am wondering more about my hypothesis.
We humans are very diverse indeed; it is more than skin deep.
l just don't trust Russia now, don't trust their space program to serve the U.S., never trusted them in the past and Putin's statement show me I can't trust them in the future.
Our legislators need to revisit how they direct and fund NASA. It doesn't mean NASA doesn't need to change, but NASA overseeing plans to keep us in space are a matter of the Federal Government's proper duty under the constitution to protect the U.S.'s interests and protect our borders.
How do handset makers get away with closing it when Android is supposed to be "open"?
China is NOT our friend.
China spends inordinate amounts of money on espionage to steal government secrets and attempts to steal private intellectual property.
It is time to stop coddling the Chinese leaders.
Of course, that would take strong leadership here. Sheesh.
Where are you. We need encouragement to feed the Washington feed trough with global warming mediation dollars.
Al Gore, speak out, please.
If we didn't have patents, few companies would innovate and there would be little reason to spend the tons of money to develop the infrastructure and retail cell phone handsets.
After all, we have all those nice sturdy 5 pount black MaBell rotary dial phones. What else do we NEED!
People who might be bitching about losing a job (at HP, RIMM for instance or MotoM) merely decided to work for a company that decided to follow rather than diligently keep up or LEAD. In some cases they seem to have ignored the factual information coming from both engineers and the marketplace on both hardware speed and ecosystem, in the case of HP.
These things are NOT the fault of the patent system. They are the fault of top management and key engineering decisions.
I sold a small company to a F500 firm and they later sued and we spent 5 years bickering while they attempted to run me out of business.
Eventually I found them stealing the equipment I make from our customers and suddenly they dropped the case.
That didn't get me back the $650,000 I spent on lawyers.
Just the way it is.
News articles of the "fluffy kind" do a disservice to people who want to know the truth about "3D printers".
The total cost of a rapid prototype or pre-production part can work out efficiently, but you need some critical items.
1. The "real" 3D model, sized for the process and the end use is needed: Functional differences will exist in the best machines depending on how the models are oriented & built. Hire a designer or get your own 3D modeling & CAD/CAM software, learn it & use it and the cost is anything but trivial. Usually at least $5k not counting your time, unless you get an educational discount.
2. The "good" 3D printers to make strong usable parts are typically SLS laser sintering machines that sinter plastic or metal powders in an inert atmosphere. You do NOT put one of these at home, unless you are Steve Jobs. Figure $500k for a good one.
3. Even the "good" parts from SLS machines often need machining and surface finishing to keep them from looking cruddy and having sizes that make fits come out wrong. I have personally spent 5 hours finishing a small RP modeled part so it would function as intended. It makes for REAL expensive parts.
The only way to keep costs down for good usable "3D printed" parts is to use a Rapid Prototyping job shop and hire or be a good designer yourself.
Lots has been written on the subject of archiving, and with lots of valuable and eventually irreplaceable data, it would pay BIG dividends to read a few books and look at some of the companies that manage data for their living.
Others here have noted the variables with respect to media, hardware & software and the fact that over time they all change and eventually become obsolete. Then comes the factors of where you store it and how many places do you store duplicates in to prevent fire, flood or whatever war from wiping the cache of data out.
Anyone can pay the fee and submit evidence that says that there were the following items of relevant prior art with documentation and the USPTO will review and issue their judgment.
To that extent, if someone patents something that had been done at a college in the 80s, it would be worthwhile submitting the documentation to show it was not a newly "invented" system.
Right now the patent application which is published does NOT reflect the allowed claims, which is typically narrower than what was originally submitted.
It will take some time to sort this out.
How could a major project at a major public company start without addressing security?
Not surprising that Governments do this and citizens revolt.
I am sensing from people I meet that a big societal change is about to occur.
I do not give our current Dictator any chance in hell of being reelected given the comedians he brought into his Regime.