Finally we're going to see if there really is a Chopstick lobby in DC!
Seriously though, wouldn't need to buy kitchen utensils. Ladle broke? Print new one. Spatula getting old? Print a new one.
I think this tech is a lot closer to a replicator than people give it credit. Yeah, your not getting food out of it, but there are lot of household items you could print off without going to the store. Once it matures anyway.
Ladle broke? Make a new one.
- Spend an hour or two coming up with a 3D file
- Spend an hour or two messing with the printer
- Spend another hour or two doing it over when you figure out you missed something important.
Versus: Walk down to the local WalMart, Walk through the aisle. Pick from several ladles. Purchase one. Walk home.
More exercise, less hassle.
That's pretty much it at this stage of the game. There are reasons why ladles (and other simple consumer goods) are made in big factories in bulk.
To be fair, have you seen how big the first Magnetic HDD's were? Granted, different technology and they still stored a hell of a lot more than 5 bytes, but miniaturisation is only a matter of time.
I hate Unity but I love Gnome-shell. (No seriously)
Tapping the top left corner to see the overview of apps per desktop, with my videos still playing while I choose which application to bring to the foreground with all its 3D acceleration glory. That's going to rock on a tablet. Then apt-get install whatever I want. Squeeeee!!! I want it. When Ubuntu with Gnome-shell hits an ARM based tablet or a Medfield Atom tablet, that's when I'm jumping in.
OK, now we've sold FIVE of those suckers! On a roll!
I think it was more like 71427,5516 - which, IIRC, was my Compuserve number way back when.
Man, if that's actually correct my memory might not be as bad off as I thought. Of course, remembering perfectly useless numbers from decades ago doesn't typically get one very far in day to day affairs. In fact, even pretty advanced Alzheimer's patients can often remember old phone numbers and social security numbers.
It's turning out to be a bad winter. Here in SE we're getting (again) near hurricane level winds and driving rain. It's rained 1.3 inches today and 10 inches so far in January.
But it's within historical norms. I guess Anchorage is set to break some snow records, but since Anchorage isn't really part of Alaska, it doesn't count.
Basically the guy is blaming HAARP (it happened over Alaska when we couldn't see it).
Right. Now, how did we manage to get the satellite to point it's solar panels away from the sun? It's just the standard post Vodka blame game. I don't think anyone is really worried about it.
How is this "the ultimate walled garden"? There are no walls. Are they going to stop customers using the iPhone App Store and the Android Market Place and force them all to use/purchase their new "apps"? That'll go down well.
According to TFA,
it would be like CompuServe, if CompuServe owned the phone company.
So, I'm envisioning this as a text based BBS running at 1200 baud over copper POTS. I really didn't realize that AT&T had a strong retro streak, but the longer I think about it, the more it makes sense.
Using analog modems at 1200 baud was the last time that AT&T managed to keep up with the data flow. It went downhill from there....
It's never too late to come out with something wonderful - to raise the bar - to redefine what people expect from their technology in ways that empower and delight and amaze. Is this it? We don't know yet. But it's not too late.
I would just like to point out that handwarmers have been around for ages. Putting them in a cell phone is new, I'll grant you that.
I think it's just e-books in general (or perhaps just Amazon). Even brand new books on a Kindle (reader) tend to look like shit. Bizarre pagination / paragraph control. Graphic blocks with no transparency so when you view the text in night view (black background / white text) the graphic is sitting there as a little square flashlight. Pictures / Maps with no controls and totally bizarre jumps (always upsetting to be tossed to the end of the chapter after looking at a map).
I've seen this on a number of expensive, presumably first run books. Again, maybe it's just Amazon doing a shitty job but it's really putting me off buying more. It's so bad that it's jarring.
What you wrote would send a classical designer into paroxysms of angst and rage. You don't 'convert' books from printed page to a Kindle automatically. You have to think about the strengths and weaknesses of each modality, you have to delve into how that will affect the reader emotional experience.
That means agnsting about fonts, white space, ligature, kerning, embedded graphic elements, reflectivity and transmission, color space and a whole bunch of other complicating terms and concepts.
It's too bad he's such an anti-equality, anti-women's rights racist homophobe.
In a real sense that's "OK" - just because you are president you don't get to repeal 60 years of pro-equality legislation (that's what Congress and the Supreme Court is for.... ). You have to be pretty circumspect in what you say and how you say it. Paul has actually kept his mouth pretty well shut about theses issues - as opposed to idiots like Bachman, Palin, Santorum and the rest of the Dimwit Express.
Yeah, he may be a closet homophobe but I don't expect to really like any candidate and get all buddy buddy with them. I'm not particularly leaning towards Paul, he just gives me different heebie jeeebies from the other goons.
There are a couple of medical and anatomy apps whose updates are pretty big. I generally don't update them until I'm home because trying to do so bogs the poor little phone down on my crappy 3G connection and I'm usually running around, not just dinking with the phone.
So, I suppose you could spend your day updating apps, but why not do that at night when you're not using the thing. It's not like iPhones really multitask well....
I'm fine with people saying evolution is the method, with a deity being the driving force. The issue is when they say that god created everything from nothing in six days around 6,000 years ago and any evidence to the contrary was put here by the devil to lure us away from the truth.
So, you're saying, really that the Devil is in the details?
This is just an example why you can't really 'argue' with a creationist. Anything you come up with, they can make a magic-fairy-dust argument that it's because God wanted it that way.
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Right. The general population barely has the technical ability to turn off their cell phone.
You're asking them to make something?
Finally we're going to see if there really is a Chopstick lobby in DC!
Seriously though, wouldn't need to buy kitchen utensils. Ladle broke? Print new one. Spatula getting old? Print a new one.
I think this tech is a lot closer to a replicator than people give it credit. Yeah, your not getting food out of it, but there are lot of household items you could print off without going to the store. Once it matures anyway.
Ladle broke? Make a new one.
- Spend an hour or two coming up with a 3D file
- Spend an hour or two messing with the printer
- Spend another hour or two doing it over when you figure out you missed something important.
Versus: Walk down to the local WalMart, Walk through the aisle. Pick from several ladles. Purchase one. Walk home.
More exercise, less hassle.
That's pretty much it at this stage of the game. There are reasons why ladles (and other simple consumer goods) are made in big factories in bulk.
How the hell does this get modded troll?
Protip: Well, I don't have one. Just chalk it up to another mod bot failure.
To be fair, have you seen how big the first Magnetic HDD's were? Granted, different technology and they still stored a hell of a lot more than 5 bytes, but miniaturisation is only a matter of time.
Yep, according to the idiots at MSNBC, we're already there.
Talk about reading comprehension failures.
Sigh.
It's not our fault the real world doesn't work right!
This should be Slashdot's real tagline. Not 'news for nerds'.
I hate Unity but I love Gnome-shell. (No seriously)
Tapping the top left corner to see the overview of apps per desktop, with my videos still playing while I choose which application to bring to the foreground with all its 3D acceleration glory.
That's going to rock on a tablet.
Then apt-get install whatever I want. Squeeeee!!! I want it.
When Ubuntu with Gnome-shell hits an ARM based tablet or a Medfield Atom tablet, that's when I'm jumping in.
OK, now we've sold FIVE of those suckers! On a roll!
And usernames like "433234"
I think it was more like 71427,5516 - which, IIRC, was my Compuserve number way back when.
Man, if that's actually correct my memory might not be as bad off as I thought. Of course, remembering perfectly useless numbers from decades ago doesn't typically get one very far in day to day affairs. In fact, even pretty advanced Alzheimer's patients can often remember old phone numbers and social security numbers.
Now I'm all depressed again.
Why do you know all of this?
Just askin'.
It's turning out to be a bad winter. Here in SE we're getting (again) near hurricane level winds and driving rain. It's rained 1.3 inches today and 10 inches so far in January.
But it's within historical norms. I guess Anchorage is set to break some snow records, but since Anchorage isn't really part of Alaska, it doesn't count.
Maybe this also account for the 20 feet of snow Alaska is getting too.
Or maybe, just perhaps, it's winter time. In Alaska. You know, that cold, snowy place Up North. Tundra. Arctic Circle. Polar Bears.....
Basically the guy is blaming HAARP (it happened over Alaska when we couldn't see it).
Right. Now, how did we manage to get the satellite to point it's solar panels away from the sun? It's just the standard post Vodka blame game. I don't think anyone is really worried about it.
How is this "the ultimate walled garden"? There are no walls. Are they going to stop customers using the iPhone App Store and the Android Market Place and force them all to use/purchase their new "apps"? That'll go down well.
According to TFA,
it would be like CompuServe, if CompuServe owned the phone company.
So, I'm envisioning this as a text based BBS running at 1200 baud over copper POTS. I really didn't realize that AT&T had a strong retro streak, but the longer I think about it, the more it makes sense.
Using analog modems at 1200 baud was the last time that AT&T managed to keep up with the data flow. It went downhill from there....
The data must flow. He who controls the stack, controls the universe.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere. "
It's never too late to come out with something wonderful - to raise the bar - to redefine what people expect from their technology in ways that empower and delight and amaze. Is this it? We don't know yet. But it's not too late.
I would just like to point out that handwarmers have been around for ages. Putting them in a cell phone is new, I'll grant you that.
Great, now once we remove all of the CO2 out of the air, what will the plants breath?
Electrolytes, silly. It's what plants crave.
Hell, I can't program past visual basic and I make more than either of you!
So there.
Maybe it's just me but the obvious question would seem to be: what causes insulin resistance in the first place?
Voltage(insulin) / Current(insulin) ??
The TFA seems to be about weird interactive books with a physics package embedded in it. Think Angry Birds meets Thomas Pynchon.
I'm not sure anything is going to solve the author's issues....
I think it's just e-books in general (or perhaps just Amazon). Even brand new books on a Kindle (reader) tend to look like shit. Bizarre pagination / paragraph control. Graphic blocks with no transparency so when you view the text in night view (black background / white text) the graphic is sitting there as a little square flashlight. Pictures / Maps with no controls and totally bizarre jumps (always upsetting to be tossed to the end of the chapter after looking at a map).
I've seen this on a number of expensive, presumably first run books. Again, maybe it's just Amazon doing a shitty job but it's really putting me off buying more. It's so bad that it's jarring.
Ah,you're definitely not into design, I see.
What you wrote would send a classical designer into paroxysms of angst and rage. You don't 'convert' books from printed page to a Kindle automatically. You have to think about the strengths and weaknesses of each modality, you have to delve into how that will affect the reader emotional experience.
That means agnsting about fonts, white space, ligature, kerning, embedded graphic elements, reflectivity and transmission, color space and a whole bunch of other complicating terms and concepts.
I take it you don't go to espresso bars much.
No, Kodak was one of the pioneers of the digital camera. They could just never execute well.
It's too bad he's such an anti-equality, anti-women's rights racist homophobe.
In a real sense that's "OK" - just because you are president you don't get to repeal 60 years of pro-equality legislation (that's what Congress and the Supreme Court is for .... ). You have to be pretty circumspect in what you say and how you say it. Paul has actually kept his mouth pretty well shut about theses issues - as opposed to idiots like Bachman, Palin, Santorum and the rest of the Dimwit Express.
Yeah, he may be a closet homophobe but I don't expect to really like any candidate and get all buddy buddy with them. I'm not particularly leaning towards Paul, he just gives me different heebie jeeebies from the other goons.
There are a couple of medical and anatomy apps whose updates are pretty big. I generally don't update them until I'm home because trying to do so bogs the poor little phone down on my crappy 3G connection and I'm usually running around, not just dinking with the phone.
So, I suppose you could spend your day updating apps, but why not do that at night when you're not using the thing. It's not like iPhones really multitask well....
I'm fine with people saying evolution is the method, with a deity being the driving force. The issue is when they say that god created everything from nothing in six days around 6,000 years ago and any evidence to the contrary was put here by the devil to lure us away from the truth.
So, you're saying, really that the Devil is in the details?
(sorry)
This is just an example why you can't really 'argue' with a creationist. Anything you come up with, they can make a magic-fairy-dust argument that it's because God wanted it that way.
It isn't science.