I see everyone attacking the grammar in the review, so I think I'll jump in too.
Here is your first sentence:
"While parts of the story have been told before, Lapsley's far-reaching research brings many of the central characters into a single read, resulting in an extremely interesting and engrossing read."
You used the word "read" twice in the same sentence. The sentence would be better written:
"Lapsley's far-reaching research brings many of the central characters into a single, extremely interesting, and engrossing read."
If you aspire to write to an audience you have a little brushing up to do.
The alliteration that my own first sentence suffers from, is intended to be ironic.
Slowly but surely we slump along towards real progress with the human condition...
Although as a skeptic I do not take leaps of faith, and would like to see more than one study done. This is not an announcement of a fact, it is an announcement of the findings of a study.
Between graphene, 3d printing, and a very short list of other emerging technologies that represent an impending new era of technological wizardry, this is a great idea but I think it would most likely be limited to schools. Any commercialization of the technology would likely die within a few short years. The problem being the prolific uptake of home 3d printers by consumers combined with their quickly lowering cost. Economies of Scales in motion: The more people who purchase 3d printers, the more rapidly and efficiently they are produced, consequently a competitive consumer environment is created forcing prices down. On the one hand, paying $10 or even $20 to be able to email a 3d design to a kiosk up at say, Walgreens, then wait an hour and go pick it would be awesome. Finished products could be shelved in the machine, allowing many people to use it, if you don't pick your creation up in time to ensure room for others, you are refunded half and the print is melted down to be used again. But as I said, commercialization of such a technology would not be profitable past a few short years. I am willing to bet we have sub $500 comprehensive 3d printers in three years, the price will continue to fall precipitously making kiosks unprofitable.
Talk about perspective. I doubt many people have ever bothered to stop and thing about it that way. I never did, but you are right. A vague analogy might along the lines: If Apple had not developed the first iPhone and functional tablet, none of our wonderful Android toys would be half as advanced as they are now, if they would even exits at all...
Of course smartphones and tablet are not capable of curing disease. That is a good 4 or 5 years off.
I recently parted ways with employment supporting smart phones. Oh so very many months ago, I started to receive calls on an increasing basis from people freaking out over way more data usage on their bill than they insisted they were actually using. I would go back over their history and see a point where data usage suddenly dropped of throughout the rest of their history. It was always after an upgrade... to an s3. I chalked it up to people digging their slick new s3 more than they realized. After all, the systems are infallible at measuring these things... Right? In hindsight, they are only as infallible so far as the phone isn't pulling a stunt like this.
If this story becomes well known enough, I can see people calling in to their carriers by the droves seeking adjustments and credits over this, regardless of wether or not they even used their phone in such a way as to be affected.
I think this story might be come a bigger issue over the next week. Glad I'm not doing customer service for a carrier.
I think the whole point of developing a technique to print a working gun in the first place was not specifically to make a weapon, but rather was to demonstrate that the ever increasing rate of technological development and scientific discovery is launching humanity headlong into a realm where we will have to address questions that we as a species are not prepared to answer.
I suspect a lot people in a position to will get corrective laser eye surgery just to use this device and similar things that will follow. If the concept really catches on in a smartphone or tablet kind of way, that would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Of course, the idea of people having their bodies augmented just to interface with technology, and having that not seem weird, would be very promising.
We will soon see. Strange times are knocking on the door.
If they plan on selling any of these they very well better re-invent the Roku for this to gain any traction. Of course what they will likely do is subsidize the cost for the sake of all the content they hope to sell, but how cheap can you make a set top in the face of what's already out there? My top of the line Roku (which I love) is selling for around $80 with even cheaper models available. Fact is, Amazon video is the service I use the least--but I do use it sometimes. I love amazon, couldn't go with out my paperwhite, but I don't think they have thought this through. With all that said I will be watching "Django Unchanged" later. I have a choice between Vudu and Amazon. Maybe I'll give the Amazon service another spin but I would never own a device that was limited to that alone and I don't think they are planning on making money off of the hardware.
At this point I say we just evacuate and wall off Florida for fifty years and then take a peek and see how natural selection works this whole mess out. I'm half serious. I realize FL is home to all of these previously foreign creatures because the creatures themselves fit the environment they have been released into despite being foreign, but they will adapt and spread in response to both fighting for resources and further climate change. Although I suppose 50 foot pythons in the sewers of New York might take care of the rat problem.
Space junk in orbit is on it's way to becoming a very serious issue if we ever get around to having a substantial amount of people in earth orbit across multiple habitats (hotels?). I have long thought we need to build a number of trash collecting orbital craft to collect all this junk down to the tiniest bit then send it all crashing down through the atmosphere to burn up. While this is a more productive solution, the bigger problem of space junk is still all the little tiny things zipping around.
I also live in Kansas City. A friend of mine has T-mobile and I can confirm that their downstream and upstream are wicked fast. He has found a way to tether his phone to his Samsung Smart TV and can stream absolutely anything with almost zero hesitation - for unknown reasons he has been doing this in an unlimited way. This may be because it's through an employee plan. The relative in question was able to look and see that he uses the equivalent of over 50 tethering plans a month or something like that. Personally, I have a 3g phone with Virgin Mobile (VM is the Sprint network). Before I recently lost my ability to tether I could stream 1080p.
First distro I ever installed back in 1996 and still my favorite. It doesn't get much nerdier that Slackware (except perhaps OpenBSD). I am glad it has survived all this time.
By most modern estimates the moon contains more water than exists on the face of the earth. I will leave it to you to search slashdot for the relevant articles.
In marketing these individuals are referred to as people with high SNP (social network potential). They are people who can share one message and sway many. The goal is to get them a message either by paying them or cleverly exposing them to something that they can make go viral. I read about in a book called Digimarketing, which I think came out in 2007.
Perhaps "BizSlash" or "SlashBiz" would sound a little more relevant? My first though was "Oh great now we have a dating site for alternative lifestyles?" Past that I'm all for expansion, just please watch your step.
Slashdot Mirror
I see everyone attacking the grammar in the review, so I think I'll jump in too.
Here is your first sentence:
"While parts of the story have been told before, Lapsley's far-reaching research brings many of the central characters into a single read, resulting in an extremely interesting and engrossing read."
You used the word "read" twice in the same sentence. The sentence would be better written:
"Lapsley's far-reaching research brings many of the central characters into a single, extremely interesting, and engrossing read."
If you aspire to write to an audience you have a little brushing up to do.
The alliteration that my own first sentence suffers from, is intended to be ironic.
Slowly but surely we slump along towards real progress with the human condition...
Although as a skeptic I do not take leaps of faith, and would like to see more than one study done. This is not an announcement of a fact, it is an announcement of the findings of a study.
Between graphene, 3d printing, and a very short list of other emerging technologies that represent an impending new era of technological wizardry, this is a great idea but I think it would most likely be limited to schools. Any commercialization of the technology would likely die within a few short years. The problem being the prolific uptake of home 3d printers by consumers combined with their quickly lowering cost. Economies of Scales in motion: The more people who purchase 3d printers, the more rapidly and efficiently they are produced, consequently a competitive consumer environment is created forcing prices down. On the one hand, paying $10 or even $20 to be able to email a 3d design to a kiosk up at say, Walgreens, then wait an hour and go pick it would be awesome. Finished products could be shelved in the machine, allowing many people to use it, if you don't pick your creation up in time to ensure room for others, you are refunded half and the print is melted down to be used again. But as I said, commercialization of such a technology would not be profitable past a few short years. I am willing to bet we have sub $500 comprehensive 3d printers in three years, the price will continue to fall precipitously making kiosks unprofitable.
Talk about perspective. I doubt many people have ever bothered to stop and thing about it that way. I never did, but you are right. A vague analogy might along the lines: If Apple had not developed the first iPhone and functional tablet, none of our wonderful Android toys would be half as advanced as they are now, if they would even exits at all...
Of course smartphones and tablet are not capable of curing disease. That is a good 4 or 5 years off.
I recently parted ways with employment supporting smart phones. Oh so very many months ago, I started to receive calls on an increasing basis from people freaking out over way more data usage on their bill than they insisted they were actually using. I would go back over their history and see a point where data usage suddenly dropped of throughout the rest of their history. It was always after an upgrade... to an s3. I chalked it up to people digging their slick new s3 more than they realized. After all, the systems are infallible at measuring these things... Right? In hindsight, they are only as infallible so far as the phone isn't pulling a stunt like this.
If this story becomes well known enough, I can see people calling in to their carriers by the droves seeking adjustments and credits over this, regardless of wether or not they even used their phone in such a way as to be affected.
I think this story might be come a bigger issue over the next week. Glad I'm not doing customer service for a carrier.
I think the whole point of developing a technique to print a working gun in the first place was not specifically to make a weapon, but rather was to demonstrate that the ever increasing rate of technological development and scientific discovery is launching humanity headlong into a realm where we will have to address questions that we as a species are not prepared to answer.
A little confused. I know who Hoagland is, and that he's nuts, but is the website a parody site? It seems over the top even for UFO nuts.
wear
...and don't like contacts.
I suspect a lot people in a position to will get corrective laser eye surgery just to use this device and similar things that will follow. If the concept really catches on in a smartphone or tablet kind of way, that would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Of course, the idea of people having their bodies augmented just to interface with technology, and having that not seem weird, would be very promising.
We will soon see. Strange times are knocking on the door.
If they plan on selling any of these they very well better re-invent the Roku for this to gain any traction. Of course what they will likely do is subsidize the cost for the sake of all the content they hope to sell, but how cheap can you make a set top in the face of what's already out there? My top of the line Roku (which I love) is selling for around $80 with even cheaper models available. Fact is, Amazon video is the service I use the least--but I do use it sometimes. I love amazon, couldn't go with out my paperwhite, but I don't think they have thought this through. With all that said I will be watching "Django Unchanged" later. I have a choice between Vudu and Amazon. Maybe I'll give the Amazon service another spin but I would never own a device that was limited to that alone and I don't think they are planning on making money off of the hardware.
Just my two cents...
and Asimov's
I'm going to have to go 1995 AOL style on that and say: ROFLMAO (insert excessive emoticons here).
Well played.
At this point I say we just evacuate and wall off Florida for fifty years and then take a peek and see how natural selection works this whole mess out. I'm half serious. I realize FL is home to all of these previously foreign creatures because the creatures themselves fit the environment they have been released into despite being foreign, but they will adapt and spread in response to both fighting for resources and further climate change. Although I suppose 50 foot pythons in the sewers of New York might take care of the rat problem.
Whew! Long time no post!
Can we add this comment to the summary?
Space junk in orbit is on it's way to becoming a very serious issue if we ever get around to having a substantial amount of people in earth orbit across multiple habitats (hotels?). I have long thought we need to build a number of trash collecting orbital craft to collect all this junk down to the tiniest bit then send it all crashing down through the atmosphere to burn up. While this is a more productive solution, the bigger problem of space junk is still all the little tiny things zipping around.
I also live in Kansas City. A friend of mine has T-mobile and I can confirm that their downstream and upstream are wicked fast. He has found a way to tether his phone to his Samsung Smart TV and can stream absolutely anything with almost zero hesitation - for unknown reasons he has been doing this in an unlimited way. This may be because it's through an employee plan. The relative in question was able to look and see that he uses the equivalent of over 50 tethering plans a month or something like that. Personally, I have a 3g phone with Virgin Mobile (VM is the Sprint network). Before I recently lost my ability to tether I could stream 1080p.
First distro I ever installed back in 1996 and still my favorite. It doesn't get much nerdier that Slackware (except perhaps OpenBSD). I am glad it has survived all this time.
By most modern estimates the moon contains more water than exists on the face of the earth. I will leave it to you to search slashdot for the relevant articles.
It is only easy to treat if it's been caught early which it typically is. This poor guy waited a little too long.
In marketing these individuals are referred to as people with high SNP (social network potential). They are people who can share one message and sway many. The goal is to get them a message either by paying them or cleverly exposing them to something that they can make go viral. I read about in a book called Digimarketing, which I think came out in 2007.
We are after all essentially paying them to produce it.
I smell a gambling addiction and the enormous debt that comes with it.
+1.18 / +3.10%
If they close in the red there first day of trading, what will it mean to investors and facebook?
Perhaps "BizSlash" or "SlashBiz" would sound a little more relevant? My first though was "Oh great now we have a dating site for alternative lifestyles?" Past that I'm all for expansion, just please watch your step.