Well, you'd think so, but creating the model for the replacement is beyond your average mechanic's computer skills. (And mine too.)
Someone has to provide the source data to print it, and with X many thousands of model-years out there, it's not going to be possible to just say "Eh, fax me another fender, I don't have one on hand".
I like the foundation of your idea, though, because it would reduce waste and expedite repairs.
The original manufacturers will have to get on board if it becomes reasonable to print replacement parts, and I bet you they will charge through the nose per use of their data, and won't go back very far into the past for parts that we'd want today. You'll probably see a markup on 'printed' parts versus new manufactured parts from the factory because of licensing alone.
I have a more expensive Linksys dual-N router that supports IPv6. But I paid extra because it had such features. As long as J. Random Consumer can go to the store and save $20 by declining IPv6, he's going to do it - and the sales people at the store are going to encourage that, because they want their sales commission and customer satisfaction ratings.
If we were hypothetically just a simulation by non-omnipotent beings, then I would want to query those running the simulation about THEIR universe. Are they part of a larger simulation as well?
What if we possibly discovered something they didn't know, and that is our reason for existence? Maybe there are hundreds or thousands of parallel simulations running to increase the chance of discovering new knowledge.
Again, good stuff that would make a great sci-fi novel. And why haven't we had a Men in Black reference yet??
System administrators, such as myself, can use WSUS to push non-Microsoft updates to all of our Windows systems. There are other ESD platforms available as well.
Interesting thought, and technically correct in that the sum of the forces would be the same. I think we would see a different scenario play out. What would happen is that the impacts would be smaller and spread out over a larger area, reducing the localized damage. I have a better analogy for what we'd be aiming for and it has cars to boot.
Imagine hitting a 1/2-lb bird with your car's windshield at 75 MPH (120 KPH) on the highway. Now imagine hitting a more spread-out swarm of insects that collectively totals that. The total force exerted on your car was ultimately the same, but in the second scenario the momentary force was much smaller and spread out over a larger area. In the first scenario, your windshield would be broken and you probably have a new (albeit rather mangled) avian passenger. In the second scenario, it probably wouldn't be completely broken and some of the insects would have hit the hood, grill, roof, mirrors, etc.
So it would be valuable to spread out the impact and maybe create the possibility that some of these things would burn up in the atmosphere or miss us entirely.
When you update the JRE, it doesn't uninstall the old version. Can something exploiting these vulnerabilities request an older version? It would appear to be possible. I've always kept my JRE updated, but I still got hit with a couple of these this year before uninstalling Java entirely and throwing out any software that depends on it.
What if we only have the ability to divert it a little bit, if and when that comes? Then we only control WHERE it hits, not WHETHER it hits. So how do we choose, I wonder?
Man. What ever happened to phone holsters? Those things worked great and it was super easy to get your phone out.
Any time you're flinging something up at your head out of your pocket, you should consider that once in a while you're going to drop it. So yes, the manufacturer needs to design them better, but the user needs to actually be conscious of what he/she is doing with the product. It is not the manufacturer's responsibility to instill common sense in the user.
... or a watch, or even a pen. Don't forget those highlighter-pen-style scanners that store for later. Haven't been to thinkgeek.com in a few years?
The real question is, how good of a camera can you shrink down to that size? Can you take legible pictures of documents in office lighting without using flash or a tripod and copy stand? This is where most pocket cameras fail.
Many copiers are known to shutdown permanently - as in require a visit from the repairman (who will probably report you to the secret service or equivalent anti-money-counterfeiting police in your country) - when presented with that pattern.
Did you read that somewhere online? If so, can I see it too? I wonder which copiers do that, because I had the same idea you did - someone could really cause me a lot of hassles if they did that to the documents I print. (Use it for your Outlook stationery, and business letterhead! Embed it in your purchase orders! Draw it on your driver's license!)
I'm pretty sure the Constellation has to be a certain size or it doesn't work, though.
Yeah, out-lawyering the government on an issue like "I killed one of your people" is going to be impossible. I recommend finding another way to deal with it, like maybe tossing it in the garbage, so they can track it to the dump and try to find it there.
What is the purpose of making these calculators with color screens rather than just making simpler but still advanced graphing calculators cheaper?
I think it's a good idea, because if introduced at the normal price point, it will drive down the price of those calculators which appear to be less technologically advanced.
Graphing calculators are obscenely overpriced... I remember selling them at an office supply store, and the pain all those parents had on their faces when they saw the prices was saddening. I wish I could have taken pictures and mailed them to all the calculator makers to shame them. This is part of why our kids aren't getting better educations... their required electronic gadgets cost so much more than they should, and the kids are never going to use most of what they paid for! That money should be going towards field trips and other things that will stick with the kids. The worst was parents with multiple kids... they would (for example) be required to buy a TI-83 for the high school freshman, then a TI-86 for the junior, then a TI-89 for the college freshman. $400 of calculators, which could have been better spent on something else.
Computers don't get infected? They sure do. Like those SCADA systems infected by Stuxnet, for example. Yes, Windows is an infection/vector/ for them, but they don't run Windows and if you manage them from another OS, you can still inject the same code. How about hypervisor viruses, and things that otherwise push malware into the BIOS or other flashable EEPROMs? Heard of the ones where they can compromise your car's electronic control systems? What about the ATM exploits that were demoed this year? Oh, how about the hacks that alter the firmware on a printer, PS3, Wii or iPhone?
Now, if you changed it to "OSes and applications and data and sometimes hardware all get infected" you'd be mostly correct but your original argument sort of dies at that point.
I agree. I would MUCH RATHER deploy Adobe updates via WSUS than have to visit every stinkin' system that has Flash or Reader and go through the inanities of "Adobe Updater needs to restart your computer so Adobe Updater can update Adobe Updater", then it can download updates for an indeterminate amount of time to update Adobe Reader 9.0.1.1.1.1.4 to 9.0.1.1.1.1.4a which ALSO requires a reboot. And THEN I get yet another update request for Flash. Gimme a break.
Gimme a USB dongle for each, with at least 2 little (but incredibly bright) LED lights indicating power and in-use states, and make each dongle so big it requires its own port separate from the others. Bonus points if they require so much of the bus power that you have to use a powered hub if you have more than one. Oh, don't forget to include an SD slot for upgradable firmware, and don't forget to require a SIM card and online activation. Periodic online re-activation and/or phone-home behavior should be mandatory as well. Each one should expect that it's the only device in use at any time, and so should cause conflicts with all other peripherals and dongles. More bonus points if you have the device as one USB dongle and the key in another dongle, especially if you don't provide a pass-thru port!
If this sounds really stupid to you... well, it's been done already in printing and pro audio in a multitude of forms... it's only a matter of time.
I somewhat agree with you and generally avoid PUGs where there are requirements for that kind of BS.
Here's what you can do to avoid PUGging with the GS/acheevs addicts while avoiding joining a hardcore raiding guild...
Find out what guilds raid the instances you want to run on your server. Go to their websites, see if they have a "friends of..." group/channel ingame. Register on their forum, introduce yourself. Say you're interested in running certain instances with them once in a while. Be friendly with them, show some respect, and they will eventually start tossing invites your way. Throw out a few lines like that, and if you're not a complete tool ingame, you'll probably get invited back after the first one.
Yes, you have to WORK for it. It's worth it to avoid all the immaturity that comes with the GS/acheevs epeen comparisons.
Here's the problem. J. Random Consumer loves cheap LCD HDTVs. The panels for these are mass-produced since J. Random Consumer is a large slice of the market for electronics. After a while, the price of those panels dropped down to where they were less expensive than the panels we'd all been using in laptops, LCD monitors, etc. and the LCD monitor manufacturers took notice. So, to save a few bucks, they switched over to the less expensive panels, and advertised "Full 780p / 1080i / 1080p HDTV resolutionz zomg!" (numbers went up over time) to J. Random Consumer so he would get distracted and wouldn't notice the vertical resolution numbers going down. People love numbers and defend them tooth and nail, but not as much as they love the latest hot marketing words. Successful distraction! The TV manufacturers also started adding ports on their TVs to connect to J. Random Consumer's home PC, and he's not really missing that vertical resolution because he can brag about PC ON MAH HDTV to the Joneses down the road. It doesn't seem to matter that he gets about 2" of any website in between his massive WinVista/7/MacOS taskbar/dock and the 10 toolbars and menus that come preloaded on his new low end 1.7 GHz HP.
Meanwhile, those of us who actually view things like documents and code are really fed up with the incredible decrease in options for monitors that are appropriate for such tasks. It's creeping into the corporate world - company laptops are coming with 1080 or 768 line displays because that's what the manufacturer provides for the least money, and desktops are getting stupid 1080 line displays with the HDTV Compatible stickers still on them. It's insulting to get a "watch moviez on this new toy weee" sticker on your WORK computer. I'd rather miss the HDMI and miscellaneous A/V ports, and get a smartly sized monitor that fits my work.
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The letter X is like... yesterday's jam!
Steampunk, obviously
Well, you'd think so, but creating the model for the replacement is beyond your average mechanic's computer skills. (And mine too.)
Someone has to provide the source data to print it, and with X many thousands of model-years out there, it's not going to be possible to just say "Eh, fax me another fender, I don't have one on hand".
I like the foundation of your idea, though, because it would reduce waste and expedite repairs.
The original manufacturers will have to get on board if it becomes reasonable to print replacement parts, and I bet you they will charge through the nose per use of their data, and won't go back very far into the past for parts that we'd want today. You'll probably see a markup on 'printed' parts versus new manufactured parts from the factory because of licensing alone.
And... That is the essence of the problem.
Affordability.
I have a more expensive Linksys dual-N router that supports IPv6. But I paid extra because it had such features. As long as J. Random Consumer can go to the store and save $20 by declining IPv6, he's going to do it - and the sales people at the store are going to encourage that, because they want their sales commission and customer satisfaction ratings.
Okay, sci-fi time.
If we were hypothetically just a simulation by non-omnipotent beings, then I would want to query those running the simulation about THEIR universe. Are they part of a larger simulation as well?
What if we possibly discovered something they didn't know, and that is our reason for existence? Maybe there are hundreds or thousands of parallel simulations running to increase the chance of discovering new knowledge.
Again, good stuff that would make a great sci-fi novel. And why haven't we had a Men in Black reference yet??
System administrators, such as myself, can use WSUS to push non-Microsoft updates to all of our Windows systems. There are other ESD platforms available as well.
Sure, Apple likes the idea of an "open standard"... the standard is that you open your computer usage up to Apple and only Apple.
Interesting thought, and technically correct in that the sum of the forces would be the same. I think we would see a different scenario play out. What would happen is that the impacts would be smaller and spread out over a larger area, reducing the localized damage. I have a better analogy for what we'd be aiming for and it has cars to boot.
Imagine hitting a 1/2-lb bird with your car's windshield at 75 MPH (120 KPH) on the highway. Now imagine hitting a more spread-out swarm of insects that collectively totals that. The total force exerted on your car was ultimately the same, but in the second scenario the momentary force was much smaller and spread out over a larger area. In the first scenario, your windshield would be broken and you probably have a new (albeit rather mangled) avian passenger. In the second scenario, it probably wouldn't be completely broken and some of the insects would have hit the hood, grill, roof, mirrors, etc.
So it would be valuable to spread out the impact and maybe create the possibility that some of these things would burn up in the atmosphere or miss us entirely.
When you update the JRE, it doesn't uninstall the old version. Can something exploiting these vulnerabilities request an older version? It would appear to be possible. I've always kept my JRE updated, but I still got hit with a couple of these this year before uninstalling Java entirely and throwing out any software that depends on it.
What if we only have the ability to divert it a little bit, if and when that comes? Then we only control WHERE it hits, not WHETHER it hits. So how do we choose, I wonder?
But the phone IS a tool, so it would be appropriate for it to look like one ;)
Man. What ever happened to phone holsters? Those things worked great and it was super easy to get your phone out.
Any time you're flinging something up at your head out of your pocket, you should consider that once in a while you're going to drop it. So yes, the manufacturer needs to design them better, but the user needs to actually be conscious of what he/she is doing with the product. It is not the manufacturer's responsibility to instill common sense in the user.
... or a watch, or even a pen. Don't forget those highlighter-pen-style scanners that store for later. Haven't been to thinkgeek.com in a few years?
The real question is, how good of a camera can you shrink down to that size? Can you take legible pictures of documents in office lighting without using flash or a tripod and copy stand? This is where most pocket cameras fail.
Many copiers are known to shutdown permanently - as in require a visit from the repairman (who will probably report you to the secret service or equivalent anti-money-counterfeiting police in your country) - when presented with that pattern.
Did you read that somewhere online? If so, can I see it too? I wonder which copiers do that, because I had the same idea you did - someone could really cause me a lot of hassles if they did that to the documents I print. (Use it for your Outlook stationery, and business letterhead! Embed it in your purchase orders! Draw it on your driver's license!)
I'm pretty sure the Constellation has to be a certain size or it doesn't work, though.
Now you just need some batteries or a neighbor's outlet to bootstrap it, and there you go.
As usual, though, perl proves more efficient ;)
use less 'energy';
Yeah, out-lawyering the government on an issue like "I killed one of your people" is going to be impossible. I recommend finding another way to deal with it, like maybe tossing it in the garbage, so they can track it to the dump and try to find it there.
What is the purpose of making these calculators with color screens rather than just making simpler but still advanced graphing calculators cheaper?
I think it's a good idea, because if introduced at the normal price point, it will drive down the price of those calculators which appear to be less technologically advanced.
Graphing calculators are obscenely overpriced... I remember selling them at an office supply store, and the pain all those parents had on their faces when they saw the prices was saddening. I wish I could have taken pictures and mailed them to all the calculator makers to shame them. This is part of why our kids aren't getting better educations... their required electronic gadgets cost so much more than they should, and the kids are never going to use most of what they paid for! That money should be going towards field trips and other things that will stick with the kids. The worst was parents with multiple kids... they would (for example) be required to buy a TI-83 for the high school freshman, then a TI-86 for the junior, then a TI-89 for the college freshman. $400 of calculators, which could have been better spent on something else.
Computers don't get infected? They sure do. Like those SCADA systems infected by Stuxnet, for example. Yes, Windows is an infection /vector/ for them, but they don't run Windows and if you manage them from another OS, you can still inject the same code. How about hypervisor viruses, and things that otherwise push malware into the BIOS or other flashable EEPROMs? Heard of the ones where they can compromise your car's electronic control systems? What about the ATM exploits that were demoed this year? Oh, how about the hacks that alter the firmware on a printer, PS3, Wii or iPhone?
Now, if you changed it to "OSes and applications and data and sometimes hardware all get infected" you'd be mostly correct but your original argument sort of dies at that point.
Don't worry, he'll throw it around and break it before you would have had to clean it anyway.
I agree. I would MUCH RATHER deploy Adobe updates via WSUS than have to visit every stinkin' system that has Flash or Reader and go through the inanities of "Adobe Updater needs to restart your computer so Adobe Updater can update Adobe Updater", then it can download updates for an indeterminate amount of time to update Adobe Reader 9.0.1.1.1.1.4 to 9.0.1.1.1.1.4a which ALSO requires a reboot. And THEN I get yet another update request for Flash. Gimme a break.
Hello! It looks like you're trying to create an inappropriate composite image of your boss!
Would you like assistance?
(a) Export to BMP
(b) Encapsulate in Word document
(c) CC to HR
(d) All of the above
Gimme a USB dongle for each, with at least 2 little (but incredibly bright) LED lights indicating power and in-use states, and make each dongle so big it requires its own port separate from the others. Bonus points if they require so much of the bus power that you have to use a powered hub if you have more than one. Oh, don't forget to include an SD slot for upgradable firmware, and don't forget to require a SIM card and online activation. Periodic online re-activation and/or phone-home behavior should be mandatory as well. Each one should expect that it's the only device in use at any time, and so should cause conflicts with all other peripherals and dongles. More bonus points if you have the device as one USB dongle and the key in another dongle, especially if you don't provide a pass-thru port!
If this sounds really stupid to you... well, it's been done already in printing and pro audio in a multitude of forms... it's only a matter of time.
I somewhat agree with you and generally avoid PUGs where there are requirements for that kind of BS.
Here's what you can do to avoid PUGging with the GS/acheevs addicts while avoiding joining a hardcore raiding guild...
Find out what guilds raid the instances you want to run on your server. Go to their websites, see if they have a "friends of..." group/channel ingame. Register on their forum, introduce yourself. Say you're interested in running certain instances with them once in a while. Be friendly with them, show some respect, and they will eventually start tossing invites your way. Throw out a few lines like that, and if you're not a complete tool ingame, you'll probably get invited back after the first one.
Yes, you have to WORK for it. It's worth it to avoid all the immaturity that comes with the GS/acheevs epeen comparisons.
But.. but.. you get to KILL THEM
Here's the problem. J. Random Consumer loves cheap LCD HDTVs. The panels for these are mass-produced since J. Random Consumer is a large slice of the market for electronics. After a while, the price of those panels dropped down to where they were less expensive than the panels we'd all been using in laptops, LCD monitors, etc. and the LCD monitor manufacturers took notice. So, to save a few bucks, they switched over to the less expensive panels, and advertised "Full 780p / 1080i / 1080p HDTV resolutionz zomg!" (numbers went up over time) to J. Random Consumer so he would get distracted and wouldn't notice the vertical resolution numbers going down. People love numbers and defend them tooth and nail, but not as much as they love the latest hot marketing words. Successful distraction! The TV manufacturers also started adding ports on their TVs to connect to J. Random Consumer's home PC, and he's not really missing that vertical resolution because he can brag about PC ON MAH HDTV to the Joneses down the road. It doesn't seem to matter that he gets about 2" of any website in between his massive WinVista/7/MacOS taskbar/dock and the 10 toolbars and menus that come preloaded on his new low end 1.7 GHz HP.
Meanwhile, those of us who actually view things like documents and code are really fed up with the incredible decrease in options for monitors that are appropriate for such tasks. It's creeping into the corporate world - company laptops are coming with 1080 or 768 line displays because that's what the manufacturer provides for the least money, and desktops are getting stupid 1080 line displays with the HDTV Compatible stickers still on them. It's insulting to get a "watch moviez on this new toy weee" sticker on your WORK computer. I'd rather miss the HDMI and miscellaneous A/V ports, and get a smartly sized monitor that fits my work.
At least we get scroll wheels on our mice.