Last I checked, most people do *not* have enough money set aside for retirement, and most companies/governments are no longer offering "guaranteed benefits" plans.
Try finding an HDMI to component adapter, or HDMI to SDI. They're out there, but they're not cheap, and the recording industry keeps trying to get them shut down.
Keeping a website up costs money in terms of bandwidth and electricity. If they have no money to pay for either of those and they haven't paid in advance, it actually could cause a site to go down...
I'm still using my HP touchpad, now running Android. It's perfectly functional as a tablet, and some say it still has some of the best speaker quality of any tablet out there.
I don't see most people printing whole products at home. I do see people printing replacement parts for things that break rather than paying exorbitantly high rates to buy the part from the manufacturer.
I had a Kitchenaid food processor. The lid is just a piece of plastic, and my wife damaged it trying to chop a carrot that wasn't totally thawed. They want $50 to replace it. In a relatively short time I fully expect to be able to have a replacement printed for a lot less than that.
The stock lug nuts for my Toyota Matrix cost $8 each. They're making a huge profit margin on those. Yes, they have a built-in washer, but for comparison aftermarket tuner lug nuts with spline drive cost about a buck each.
Saturn vehicles had plastic body panels, and my bumper is just a plastic panel over a crushable core. If I can replace the crushable core with a different one and then get a 3d-printed panel for it, why wouldn't I go that route?
Are you seriously saying that there is no possible way the lawyers at GM couldn't have come up with a valid waiver for drivers to sign saying that they were buying the cars as-is with no guarantee of servicing or parts availability?
I mentioned this in a previous post but it would be possible to make a little trailer with a fuel tank and generator and use that to provide extended range for an electric car.
It would be entirely feasable to mount a small generator/fuel tank in a lightweight aerodynamic trailer and use it to power an electric car for long road trips. Then for local short-range driving you unhitch the trailer and go pure-electric to avoid the weight penalty.
If you look at it from a global perspective, by automating the factory you allowed X people in the USA to produce a certain amount of goods. To produce that amount of goods in Taiwan would take X*Y people. Therefore globally you actually destroyed jobs via that automation.
What do we do with the people who used to drive trucks, or dig ditches, or fill holes? What do we do with people that are not *able* to be artists, or engineers, or software designers, or doctors, or car mechanics?
It's easy to say that they should do things that contribute, but if someone has worked for decades at something and then that something gets automated, it's *really hard* for them to switch over to doing something else for another decade until they retire--and when they do that switch they're likely going to take a huge hit in salary, so what do we do to support their families?
If all menial jobs are done by robots/computers/machines, then the only jobs remaining for people are ones required mental flexibility, artistic vision, or some kind of "human touch".
Given that for most of human history most people performed menial jobs, there are going to be a lot of people struggling to adapt...
If people were solely responsible for their own actions, then all offences of the form "inciting x" couldn't be an offence because the people involved chose to do it.
It also means that police entrapment wouldn't be a defence, because the person could have refused to do it.
It would likely also mean that nobody could claim provocation as a defence.
In all those cases, your arms are not constantly out in front of you. Much of the time your arms are hanging down, or resting on something else. When they're not, they're often tucked in closer to the body which makes them easier to hold up.
The simplest solution to a 3D holographic interface is to plant your elbows on a surface to support the weight of your arm, and then move mostly your fingers with some hand movement.
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Last I checked, most people do *not* have enough money set aside for retirement, and most companies/governments are no longer offering "guaranteed benefits" plans.
Try finding an HDMI to component adapter, or HDMI to SDI. They're out there, but they're not cheap, and the recording industry keeps trying to get them shut down.
That's like saying that all the hold-up victim had to do was give up all their money and they could have avoided being hit during the mugging.
Or CBC/BBC for the Canadian and British take on american news. Within the US, maybe NBC, ABC, CBS?
A large scale website is not free to operate, you have to pay for the electricity to run the servers, and for the bandwidth used.
And they go on social assistance because they can't get a job anymore, and the people that do have jobs have to support them.
Keeping a website up costs money in terms of bandwidth and electricity. If they have no money to pay for either of those and they haven't paid in advance, it actually could cause a site to go down...
I'm still using my HP touchpad, now running Android. It's perfectly functional as a tablet, and some say it still has some of the best speaker quality of any tablet out there.
An Android phone with suitably-configured VPN can give me unfettered access to my company's intranet too...
Same driver as the PortaPro, but they don't hurt my ears like the PortaPros do after a while. (This may just be a fit thing, I have a large head.)
The downside is, they look kind of odd...
Using GPS on your phone is entirely legitimate.
Um...not if it's illegal in that jurisdiction....
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I don't see most people printing whole products at home. I do see people printing replacement parts for things that break rather than paying exorbitantly high rates to buy the part from the manufacturer.
I had a Kitchenaid food processor. The lid is just a piece of plastic, and my wife damaged it trying to chop a carrot that wasn't totally thawed. They want $50 to replace it. In a relatively short time I fully expect to be able to have a replacement printed for a lot less than that.
The stock lug nuts for my Toyota Matrix cost $8 each. They're making a huge profit margin on those. Yes, they have a built-in washer, but for comparison aftermarket tuner lug nuts with spline drive cost about a buck each.
Saturn vehicles had plastic body panels, and my bumper is just a plastic panel over a crushable core. If I can replace the crushable core with a different one and then get a 3d-printed panel for it, why wouldn't I go that route?
Are you seriously saying that there is no possible way the lawyers at GM couldn't have come up with a valid waiver for drivers to sign saying that they were buying the cars as-is with no guarantee of servicing or parts availability?
I'm up in Canada. All the Toyota dealers within a thousand miles charge the same price, and they don't dicker.
I mentioned this in a previous post but it would be possible to make a little trailer with a fuel tank and generator and use that to provide extended range for an electric car.
It would be entirely feasable to mount a small generator/fuel tank in a lightweight aerodynamic trailer and use it to power an electric car for long road trips. Then for local short-range driving you unhitch the trailer and go pure-electric to avoid the weight penalty.
The main reason why I need a docking station still is to handle multiple monitors. (Three, currently.)
If you look at it from a global perspective, by automating the factory you allowed X people in the USA to produce a certain amount of goods. To produce that amount of goods in Taiwan would take X*Y people. Therefore globally you actually destroyed jobs via that automation.
What do we do with the people who used to drive trucks, or dig ditches, or fill holes? What do we do with people that are not *able* to be artists, or engineers, or software designers, or doctors, or car mechanics?
It's easy to say that they should do things that contribute, but if someone has worked for decades at something and then that something gets automated, it's *really hard* for them to switch over to doing something else for another decade until they retire--and when they do that switch they're likely going to take a huge hit in salary, so what do we do to support their families?
If all menial jobs are done by robots/computers/machines, then the only jobs remaining for people are ones required mental flexibility, artistic vision, or some kind of "human touch".
Given that for most of human history most people performed menial jobs, there are going to be a lot of people struggling to adapt...
If people were solely responsible for their own actions, then all offences of the form "inciting x" couldn't be an offence because the people involved chose to do it.
It also means that police entrapment wouldn't be a defence, because the person could have refused to do it.
It would likely also mean that nobody could claim provocation as a defence.
In all those cases, your arms are not constantly out in front of you. Much of the time your arms are hanging down, or resting on something else. When they're not, they're often tucked in closer to the body which makes them easier to hold up.
The simplest solution to a 3D holographic interface is to plant your elbows on a surface to support the weight of your arm, and then move mostly your fingers with some hand movement.