While I broadly agree, it is a useful life skill to have at least the times tables up to 12x12 learned by rote. You do have to remember some things in life, even with Google available on your smartphone.
We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style. The kids will get to roam around freely in fields, forests, lakes, watch the stars in the night and all of it.
You missed out being forced to wake up at 4am and milk the cows, then getting killed by wolves as they trudge home from their work in the fields in the evening.
There must be a lot of the Space Nutter fraternity on slashdot who are torn here, as the only thing they seem to hate more than people who don't understand why a sane human being would want to go on a suicide mission to a barren red rock is NASA.
One would imagine then a person would guard themselves from it by never engaging in it in the first place.
I don't want a DUI on my record so I ensure that I never drive when I'll be drinking. This way I am sure to never receive a DUI.
DUI is a crime. Taking a picture of your tits for your bf isn't.
Do you keep that file on one of the many devices you already own that contains one of those breakthroughs in battery tech?
You appear to be one of the many people on slashdot who confuse "breakthrough" with "incremental improvement in efficiency with no significant effect on human happiness".
Today, anyone with some determination and a few photographs can replicate keys. How soon will it be till the average criminal has access to an instant key duplicator? A high quality scanner could mark the end of even the top rated physical keys.
If I need a spare front door key, I take my existing one to my friendly locksmith and they make a duplicate,
Since most people don't walk around with their keys round their necks, to get a duplicate key 3D printed the criminal would have to steal/borrow it, just like now.
I have no great faith in 3D printers transforming our world into some sort of post-scarcity utopia, but your concern is a bit like saying "what would happen if a murderous psychotic stranger printed a replica broadsword and cut someone's arms and legs off with it".
People don't deny that having a machine that does rapid prototyping is a good idea, it's the extrapolation of current capabilities into "in five years time you'll be able to scan a Ferrari on your smartphone and print out an exact copy" that gets annoying.
Wake me up when we can replicate food, say, and have it taste the same as the original. Will we see that in my lifetime? Maybe, if I'm lucky.
"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
I think we'll be seeing cold fusion and flying cars before perfectly replicated food.
And which part of "this will, at best, create a SHELL of the EXTERIOR of an object" do you not comprehend? Or do you think if I take a picture of a Commodore 64 I'll be able to magically 3D print the (invisible on the picture) PCB and all the chips on it?
You're insane.
No, no, don't forget that in five years time we'll be able to print out anything on our quantum level printers. Including fully functioning human brains.
"I wish I could create a mediocre quality 3D printed version of this"?
Which part of "accurate to within microns" did you not comprehend?
What part of "3D printers can currently only produce mediocre quality plastic representations" do you not understand? Sure, in five years time maybe we will all be printing out our trainers and cars. Maybe.
I think you're spot on with the clear plastic door on your fridge, those sorts of things are ridiculously over-priced, and you wouldn't need a particularly clever 3D scanner/printer to be able to replicate it..
However, until 3D printers can do proper metal, I don't see how they're going to be much use for a welder nozzle or rebuilding an old car.
Before you say that being born White is an advantage, I'd like to remind you what I've posted elsewhere. My elementary school was 25% White. 20% of my high school was White. Whites got beat up just for being White
Gosh, it's almost like when you're an easily identifiable minority group you get bullied.
if science fiction is defined too broadly, then all fiction about what could happen becomes science fiction, which simply isn't the case.
This is precisely why there is such a strong argument for just not bothering to apply genre labels to works of art at all. It's all primarily a marketing tool anyway.
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While I broadly agree, it is a useful life skill to have at least the times tables up to 12x12 learned by rote. You do have to remember some things in life, even with Google available on your smartphone.
Falling out of a plane isn't flying any more than falling off a cliff is.
There are many problems confronting Western civilization. That too many children are reading books is not one of them.
. Since I was 15, I have read maybe 3-5 books outside of required school reading and I seem to be more intelligent and more accomplished than most.
Hint: you're not.
We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style. The kids will get to roam around freely in fields, forests, lakes, watch the stars in the night and all of it.
You missed out being forced to wake up at 4am and milk the cows, then getting killed by wolves as they trudge home from their work in the fields in the evening.
There must be a lot of the Space Nutter fraternity on slashdot who are torn here, as the only thing they seem to hate more than people who don't understand why a sane human being would want to go on a suicide mission to a barren red rock is NASA.
One would imagine then a person would guard themselves from it by never engaging in it in the first place. I don't want a DUI on my record so I ensure that I never drive when I'll be drinking. This way I am sure to never receive a DUI.
DUI is a crime. Taking a picture of your tits for your bf isn't.
Do you keep that file on one of the many devices you already own that contains one of those breakthroughs in battery tech?
You appear to be one of the many people on slashdot who confuse "breakthrough" with "incremental improvement in efficiency with no significant effect on human happiness".
Today, anyone with some determination and a few photographs can replicate keys. How soon will it be till the average criminal has access to an instant key duplicator? A high quality scanner could mark the end of even the top rated physical keys.
If I need a spare front door key, I take my existing one to my friendly locksmith and they make a duplicate,
Since most people don't walk around with their keys round their necks, to get a duplicate key 3D printed the criminal would have to steal/borrow it, just like now.
I have no great faith in 3D printers transforming our world into some sort of post-scarcity utopia, but your concern is a bit like saying "what would happen if a murderous psychotic stranger printed a replica broadsword and cut someone's arms and legs off with it".
People don't deny that having a machine that does rapid prototyping is a good idea, it's the extrapolation of current capabilities into "in five years time you'll be able to scan a Ferrari on your smartphone and print out an exact copy" that gets annoying.
Wake me up when we can replicate food, say, and have it taste the same as the original. Will we see that in my lifetime? Maybe, if I'm lucky.
"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
I think we'll be seeing cold fusion and flying cars before perfectly replicated food.
And which part of "this will, at best, create a SHELL of the EXTERIOR of an object" do you not comprehend? Or do you think if I take a picture of a Commodore 64 I'll be able to magically 3D print the (invisible on the picture) PCB and all the chips on it?
You're insane.
No, no, don't forget that in five years time we'll be able to print out anything on our quantum level printers. Including fully functioning human brains.
"I wish I could create a mediocre quality 3D printed version of this"?
Which part of "accurate to within microns" did you not comprehend?
What part of "3D printers can currently only produce mediocre quality plastic representations" do you not understand? Sure, in five years time maybe we will all be printing out our trainers and cars. Maybe.
However, until 3D printers can do proper metal, I don't see how they're going to be much use for a welder nozzle or rebuilding an old car.
Most companies today look at IT as a cost and not an asset as it adds no value to the bottom line
This is self evident unless they're an IT company.
Just because something is a cost doesn't mean you can just cut it indefinitely with no impact.
...I think you're the first person in history to call Windows 8.1 "good" and Windows 2000 "bad." What's your secret?
They also wrote "Windows Me - good" which suggests something like a psychotic break with reality.
A new troll is born, always a beautiful sight.
It is possible to steer with your knees. I do this every day on the highway while eating breakfast. No accidents in 10 years.
Car articles certainly bring out the morons on slashdot. I'm waiting next for the "I drive better after a few stiff whiskies" line.
I can drive for 20+ hours at a stretch without falling asleep
Wow, you're a cock.
Muslims are allowed to perform genital mutilation, honor killings of rape victims, and the outright murder of gays.
Not in countries like the US or in Europe or Australia.
And, strange as it may seem, most believers in "social justice" are opposed to these things wherever they occur.
Before you say that being born White is an advantage, I'd like to remind you what I've posted elsewhere. My elementary school was 25% White. 20% of my high school was White. Whites got beat up just for being White
Gosh, it's almost like when you're an easily identifiable minority group you get bullied.
That just goes to show you how touchy the SJWs are. If you toe the lie on all of their points but one, which OSC does, they'll still ostracize you.
Wow, in this thread, as long as you include the phrase "SJW" you get modded up.
SP/RP are about taking the field back for real SF that the fans of SF like
What kind of SF do 'real' SF fans like? Is it even possible to describe them all in one category?
Simple, everything I like is Real Science Fiction, all the rest is rubbish.
If you wonder why there seems to be a big gap of 12-15 years where not a lot of new good SF authors came out in book form, except from Baen
Yeah, sure, if by "good SF" you mean big- guns-in-space Boy's Own Adventures.
if science fiction is defined too broadly, then all fiction about what could happen becomes science fiction, which simply isn't the case.
This is precisely why there is such a strong argument for just not bothering to apply genre labels to works of art at all. It's all primarily a marketing tool anyway.