Meanwhile here in Atlantic Canada.. we're lucky to have a little asphalt between the potholes, let alone lane markings you can actually see at night/when it's raining.
And we totally are doing it wrong. Cheap paint, shoddy quick patch jobs that sometimes fail in the same day (I sat in a tim hortons looking out the window and watched in awe as a team poured some filler into a hole filled with water. The water was literally splashing out as they poured).
It's gotten so bad that it's actually a major news story here.
My argument is more along the lines of most technology started out as shit and then got better. If you think about it, it's pretty rare for a technology to develop strong interest and not improve over time. Bad ideas usually die quickly. Good ones tend to hang in there until they eventually pan out (or hit some kind of insurmountable obstacle).
More to the point, there is an obvious trend of improvement, and a visible horizon where ideas are currently "being worked on" with no reason to suspect they won't eventually happen (like the water soluble support materials thing). You can very clearly see progress from where this whole thing started, to where we are now, to where things are heading. I don't see anything indicating that's going to stop.
Ultimately though I wasn't arguing specifically that 3D printing is going to be a huge success based on the fact that ereaders were. I was arguing that it's too early to call it. Just as ereaders initially sucked then got better, so could 3D printers. Wasn't meant to be an argument that they would, just that they could.
Not even sure if trolling at this point. The primary tech behind those readers, "electronic paper", has been an ongoing development effort since the 70s. It went from a very primitive technology to pretty damn good, at which point it developed mass appeal and caught on.
No idea, but that doesn't exactly seem like an insurmountable problem. Rotating nozzles maybe? Or some kind of finishing process (maybe laser based?), or just variable diameter nozzles that can go down to ridiculously fine sizes.
To be honest, smooth printing has never been a huge concern to me. The material selection is the wall that we'll eventually hit. There's only so many materials that can be used in this manner, and that's the big limiting factor that I don't see this tech ever overcoming. That said, you can do a whole hell of a lot with plastic.
We said that about ebook readers for _years_ until they finally did become decent.
Not claiming 3D printing is anywhere near practical yet, or will be in the near future.. but comparing what you could do with a 3D printer a few years ago to now, you definitely see real progress.
We still haven't hit the limit of what we can do with robotically controlled glue guns yet. The coming wave is multi-headed printers with dissolving materials that can be used as temporary filler, allowing the printing of complex inner workings and eliminating one of the biggest problems we currently have: dealing with gravity.
Besides patents, there's a lot of other obstacles to home laser sintering based printers.
Sourcing that metal powder, sourcing the inert gas you need to use, the cost of the laser (though some of that comes down to patents, it's still not as cheap as a "hot metal thing"), safety concerns, fumes, etc..
I think the truth is that the robotic glue gun approach is going to be the best we get for a while.
I highly doubt they'll answer this, but I'd be curious to know what kind of impact they actually felt from doing this. Did they actually see a drop in their sales? Personally they lost a potential customer in me, but I get that nerd range as a thing tends to appear more wide spread than it actually is.
You can revoke keys, change passwords, and patch the software, but you can't revoke the data that was already sent with them (and can now be decoded) no more than you can you revoke the bits of data that could have been stolen.
My experience is the rasp pi just isn't stable enough in that kind of configuration for serious use (other experiences may vary). When you get higher USB traffic or eth traffic, it fails, and when it fails spectacularly and usually takes the board down with it. There are better boards out there are a slightly higher price range that can handle this no problem.
Don't get me wrong, I love the rasp pi and I think it's awesome what they've done and more importantly what they've started (this kinda ultra cheap computer was a dream just a little while ago, now you've got a wide variety, and I believe the rasp pi was directly responsible for this). The reality is however that a good number of alternatives have popped up at a variety of price points, many better suited for a lot of the purposes we originally were salivating over for the pi. Definitely worth looking around before trying to force a pi to do it.
I know someone who is a guru in foxpro. Remember foxpro! I laughed until she pointed out that it had basically paid for her house.
It seems like one of those bubbles that's too late to get into now, but if you got into it 10 years ago, you are now very well off with probably enough remaining work out there to ride out to retirement.
You have to weight that cost, and the ongoing cost of that approach against migrating to something new.
As pre-canned software becomes more flexible and cheaper, and talent to tweak it into what you need, simply tossing out a perfectly functional system starts to make more sense.
Then again, we've got crap like SAP as a pretty good encouragement to pour more money into that old mainframe and hold off for a few more decades..
"We don't see mainframes as legacy technology," says Charlie Ewen. "They are resilient, robust and are very cost-effective for some of the work we do."
My guess is it's an algorithm that starts with the assumption that the password is correct until proven incorrect, and something in that algorithm is breaking, leaving the correct assumption to stand.
This is of course lazy programming, but not entirely uncommon.
I would however note that it's that curiosity to try stuff like this and that "what happens if I.." mindset that tends to make a good hacker. Yes this kid lucked out, but it's always encouraging when you see this kinda "poke holes in everything" behaviour early on.
1) kill the competition 2) assets (physical, people, and lately the big one: patents/other IP) 3) seemed like a good idea but quickly proves to be way less profitable than expected (will probably be the case when Dice eventually sells or kills slashdot).
Law and Order (excluding the spin-offs) is the only one I can think of off hand that didn't follow this pattern.
There were a few occasional interpersonal drama type episodes, but for the most part they stuck to their original concept right to the end (which is actually impressive given how long it ran and how damn repetitive it got..)
I actually didn't know about the mythbusters producer thing. I actually found it was more the "just blow everything up every episode" stuff that drove me away. I actually liked the early episodes where they were on a tight budget.
I think it's also a combination of people playing it up for the cameras, and the fact that they are condensing weeks (in some cases more) into 44 minutes (in some cases less). I generally consider myself pretty easy going, but if a film crew followed me around for 2 months, they could probably edit out a 44 minute video that would portray me however they wanted.
Deadliest Catch was actually initially interesting because it focused on the real and technical aspects of doing a legitimately dangerous job. It didn't take long for it to devolve into the typical reality TV pattern of all drama all the time. By the time I stopped watching, the fact that they were on a boat wasn't even that relevant any more.
And let me say I was legitimately blown away by this. I was totally convinced this was an April fools joke in the morning, but as things progressed I was starting to have doubts. By the time the proverbial beans were finally spilled, I was honestly giving it 50/50 of being real with very poor timing. You guys totally sold it.
Definitely the best prank I've seen in a long time. Much appreciated:)
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This is filler spot on daytime tv news sad.
Meanwhile here in Atlantic Canada.. we're lucky to have a little asphalt between the potholes, let alone lane markings you can actually see at night/when it's raining.
And we totally are doing it wrong. Cheap paint, shoddy quick patch jobs that sometimes fail in the same day (I sat in a tim hortons looking out the window and watched in awe as a team poured some filler into a hole filled with water. The water was literally splashing out as they poured).
It's gotten so bad that it's actually a major news story here.
My argument is more along the lines of most technology started out as shit and then got better. If you think about it, it's pretty rare for a technology to develop strong interest and not improve over time. Bad ideas usually die quickly. Good ones tend to hang in there until they eventually pan out (or hit some kind of insurmountable obstacle).
More to the point, there is an obvious trend of improvement, and a visible horizon where ideas are currently "being worked on" with no reason to suspect they won't eventually happen (like the water soluble support materials thing). You can very clearly see progress from where this whole thing started, to where we are now, to where things are heading. I don't see anything indicating that's going to stop.
Ultimately though I wasn't arguing specifically that 3D printing is going to be a huge success based on the fact that ereaders were. I was arguing that it's too early to call it. Just as ereaders initially sucked then got better, so could 3D printers. Wasn't meant to be an argument that they would, just that they could.
Uh..
Not even sure if trolling at this point. The primary tech behind those readers, "electronic paper", has been an ongoing development effort since the 70s. It went from a very primitive technology to pretty damn good, at which point it developed mass appeal and caught on.
No idea, but that doesn't exactly seem like an insurmountable problem. Rotating nozzles maybe? Or some kind of finishing process (maybe laser based?), or just variable diameter nozzles that can go down to ridiculously fine sizes.
To be honest, smooth printing has never been a huge concern to me. The material selection is the wall that we'll eventually hit. There's only so many materials that can be used in this manner, and that's the big limiting factor that I don't see this tech ever overcoming. That said, you can do a whole hell of a lot with plastic.
We said that about ebook readers for _years_ until they finally did become decent.
Not claiming 3D printing is anywhere near practical yet, or will be in the near future.. but comparing what you could do with a 3D printer a few years ago to now, you definitely see real progress.
We still haven't hit the limit of what we can do with robotically controlled glue guns yet. The coming wave is multi-headed printers with dissolving materials that can be used as temporary filler, allowing the printing of complex inner workings and eliminating one of the biggest problems we currently have: dealing with gravity.
Besides patents, there's a lot of other obstacles to home laser sintering based printers.
Sourcing that metal powder, sourcing the inert gas you need to use, the cost of the laser (though some of that comes down to patents, it's still not as cheap as a "hot metal thing"), safety concerns, fumes, etc..
I think the truth is that the robotic glue gun approach is going to be the best we get for a while.
Nothing to do with 3D printing, but still pretty cool and possibly of interest: http://www.concretecanvas.com/
It's basically a concrete building in a box that two people can set up with water and an air compressor.
I highly doubt they'll answer this, but I'd be curious to know what kind of impact they actually felt from doing this. Did they actually see a drop in their sales? Personally they lost a potential customer in me, but I get that nerd range as a thing tends to appear more wide spread than it actually is.
It's not easy to fix leaked data.
You can revoke keys, change passwords, and patch the software, but you can't revoke the data that was already sent with them (and can now be decoded) no more than you can you revoke the bits of data that could have been stolen.
Yikes!
Terrible grammar, even for me. Sorry folks :(
My experience is the rasp pi just isn't stable enough in that kind of configuration for serious use (other experiences may vary). When you get higher USB traffic or eth traffic, it fails, and when it fails spectacularly and usually takes the board down with it. There are better boards out there are a slightly higher price range that can handle this no problem.
Don't get me wrong, I love the rasp pi and I think it's awesome what they've done and more importantly what they've started (this kinda ultra cheap computer was a dream just a little while ago, now you've got a wide variety, and I believe the rasp pi was directly responsible for this). The reality is however that a good number of alternatives have popped up at a variety of price points, many better suited for a lot of the purposes we originally were salivating over for the pi. Definitely worth looking around before trying to force a pi to do it.
One can find something interesting while not agreeing with it in the slightest. At least I can.
I have no practical use for any of this info (I'd probably piss myself if I was in any of the situations you describe) but damn was it fun to read!
Yup.
I know someone who is a guru in foxpro. Remember foxpro! I laughed until she pointed out that it had basically paid for her house.
It seems like one of those bubbles that's too late to get into now, but if you got into it 10 years ago, you are now very well off with probably enough remaining work out there to ride out to retirement.
You have to weight that cost, and the ongoing cost of that approach against migrating to something new.
As pre-canned software becomes more flexible and cheaper, and talent to tweak it into what you need, simply tossing out a perfectly functional system starts to make more sense.
Then again, we've got crap like SAP as a pretty good encouragement to pour more money into that old mainframe and hold off for a few more decades..
"We don't see mainframes as legacy technology," says Charlie Ewen. "They are resilient, robust and are very cost-effective for some of the work we do."
Love this kind of talk! Go get'em Charlie Ewen!
My guess is it's an algorithm that starts with the assumption that the password is correct until proven incorrect, and something in that algorithm is breaking, leaving the correct assumption to stand.
This is of course lazy programming, but not entirely uncommon.
Generally agree.
I would however note that it's that curiosity to try stuff like this and that "what happens if I.." mindset that tends to make a good hacker. Yes this kid lucked out, but it's always encouraging when you see this kinda "poke holes in everything" behaviour early on.
Three big ones:
1) kill the competition
2) assets (physical, people, and lately the big one: patents/other IP)
3) seemed like a good idea but quickly proves to be way less profitable than expected (will probably be the case when Dice eventually sells or kills slashdot).
Law and Order (excluding the spin-offs) is the only one I can think of off hand that didn't follow this pattern.
There were a few occasional interpersonal drama type episodes, but for the most part they stuck to their original concept right to the end (which is actually impressive given how long it ran and how damn repetitive it got..)
I actually didn't know about the mythbusters producer thing. I actually found it was more the "just blow everything up every episode" stuff that drove me away. I actually liked the early episodes where they were on a tight budget.
Agree.
The answer here seems very polarized. It's either going to be trivial or a nightmare depending on the game.
If the former and you think there's a market, do it, if the later, probably not worth it.
I think it's also a combination of people playing it up for the cameras, and the fact that they are condensing weeks (in some cases more) into 44 minutes (in some cases less). I generally consider myself pretty easy going, but if a film crew followed me around for 2 months, they could probably edit out a 44 minute video that would portray me however they wanted.
Totally this.
Deadliest Catch was actually initially interesting because it focused on the real and technical aspects of doing a legitimately dangerous job. It didn't take long for it to devolve into the typical reality TV pattern of all drama all the time. By the time I stopped watching, the fact that they were on a boat wasn't even that relevant any more.
Thanks for the followup :)
And let me say I was legitimately blown away by this. I was totally convinced this was an April fools joke in the morning, but as things progressed I was starting to have doubts. By the time the proverbial beans were finally spilled, I was honestly giving it 50/50 of being real with very poor timing. You guys totally sold it.
Definitely the best prank I've seen in a long time. Much appreciated :)