Again, if everything that could have some important use to the military is kept from the public then the rest of us do what? Go back to living in caves? Oh, wait.. those might be good bomb shelters...
People have been building their own mills for far less than your $2,500 for a long time now. With the 'maker movement' cheaper, more available mills are a given regardless of anything DD does. Then there is all of the used factory equipment that is becoming available quite cheap at auctions as the manufacturing industry keeps dying. Check out Craigslist some time. I'm constantly seeing metalworking shops that are going out of business selling off their tools in my area.
Surely somebody would realize they can make a gun on one without DD specifically calling their mill a gun making device! All I see that is unique coming from DD in regard to making a metal gun is marketing fluff.
'...article keeps mentioning how this technology â" used commonly as an acoustic filter â" has "military applications."'
Sure. Soldiers communicate. So do civilians. A soldier has to shit too. I guess if they were stealing the recipee for Charmin that would also be military secrets.
In many cases, yes. There's always the naturalist hippies though... I bet we end up seeing a lot more of those as future generations don't take up their parent's faith.
I've been using a rolling release of Linux for years. The whole concept of having to start over when a new version comes out seems so antiquated.
On the other hand.. I don't see how this can work for a closed, comercial product unless they can sell people on the subscription model. I'd say that would be a tough sell but then again.. people buy crappy hardware that needs replaced in a year or two. People subscribe to access libraries of movies and music rather than permanently buy recordings. Maybe it's only a tough sell to me.
That's not what the article is about. The article is about a fight over their right to distribute plans for the Liberator. That is an all-plastic 3d printed gun.
The article was about digital plans for the Liberator, a 3D printed gun which is meant to be printed in plastic.
The last I heard their mill was just a nifty little CNC mill. It's good for making guns and that's what they market for but it's nothing new. If you have the skill and knowlege to make a gun with it then you already have the skill and knowlege to make a gun with tons of other machines which have been available for a long time.
I'm all for DD supporting second amendment rights but come on... I still can barely believe that people are actually printing guns.
Sure.. with some super-expensive, totally out of reach equipment you can print a nice metal gun at many many times the price of making it the old fashioned way. But plastic guns? Really... let me type that again... PLASTIC F'ING GUNS!!
Law abiding citizen or criminal... I think a person shooting a plastic gun is mostly a threat to themself. One of these things is going to blow up in somebody's face!
Those who support individual rights can call 3d printed guns a great thing. Those who fear inanimate objects and bogeymen can call it a disaster. I'll just call it a boatload of Darwin Awards waiting to happen!
My Droid Bionic plus Lapdock have been great for me.
Granted.. the software IS mostly optimized for phone use. I'm not installing desktop stuff on there. Many apps do change their displays significantly when they are ran on a tablet as opposed to a phone. When using the lapdock they do the same thing which is awesome. They switch back to phone-mode when I unplug it.
Of course.. for 'real' desktop applications I use a VNC app. That's fine by me though. I already 'babysit' a desktop. (keep applications up to date, etc...). I don't really want a laptop because that would be just like having a second desktop to babysit. VNC on my phone in the lapdock with an unlimitted data connection is perfect for me!
No you don't! You can do it with just one. That's how it was done originally and many Hams stil do it that way. It's called a straight key. You just hold your finger down longer for a dah, shorter for a dit.
There are apps already out there for this using either one or two buttons. Some can even work both ways based on preference. They just need to be ported to the watch.
I've never seen a break key. Interesting idea. I'm not sure why/how you would use it. Instead of pressing a break key just spend that same time pressing nothing.
Then again I am thinking more of actually sending morse such as a ham sending CW. If you had a break key then a short press would mean you could immediately go to the next dit or dah. The keyer would still have to wait to send that dit or dah so you would need a buffer. That would be kind of weird to use since usually when sending morse one listens while sending.
I suppose that for this applicaiton a break key could work and would allow faster 'typing'. Just don't actually sound out the code and do display the characters as they are typed. It is hardly necessary though, two or one button would work just fine.
That's what you took away from my post? Really? Maybe you think that YOU are working for the next big billion dollar business?
I guess con artists who go after specific age groups shouldn't be prosecuted for being con artists. They should be sued for age descrimination because they are not offering to steal from everyone equally.
It doesn't matter where they are now. The point is there were alternatives. Without Microsoft one or more of those alternatives would have had Microsoft's user base. Of course.. that would have probably resulted in more money going into that alternative.. which would have meant more development.. taking it to a further level than it was originally developed.
So.. no, we would not all be on mainframes without Microsoft.
They want someone who will work all their waking hours on salary and not bitch about it because they think they are "a part of something". They think they are working on the next Facebook and they are going to get rich because they are among the early employees.
In actuality they are just looking to pump as much cheap labor as they possibly can until either the kids are all burnt out and they dump them for fresh ones or they can find someone to sell the company to, likely laying everyone off but getting the owner a nice check out of the deal.
Most older people should know better by now anyway and realize they aren't missing much.
My suggestion is that when you are presented with two doors, behind one you know there is death, behind the other you have no f'ng idea. Only an idiot would chose the death one. Taking a chance is better than not having a chance!
Every study that comes out says that we need to cut unrealistic amounts of carbon and we need to do it yesterday. Meanwhile politicians only commit to mandates that aren't even as good as what realistically could be done and industry just continues on as usual.
Do you all think this problem is going to solve itself?
On the hopeful side... at least once everything that naturally lives on Antarctica is dead because it can't adapt fast enough we will have a nice chunk of land we can bomb to create the nuclear winter we will need just to keep alive.
We know climate change is real. We know that humans are causing it. We know it is going to cause bad things for us. (at least those of us who prefer logical thought over blind emotion know these things)
We don't know exactly how bad it is going to get nor do we know exactly how quickly it will get there. We don't know exactly how much we need to cut back on greenhouse emisions but all indications are that we need to cut back a lot and quickly.
In other words.. we don't know that it is even possible anymore to avert catastrophy by simply cutting back. Even if it is possible we don't know that it can be done at a cost we are willing to pay. How many of us are willing to give up our technological comforts and go roam the savanna? I'm not! Is that what it would take? I don't know. Maybe!
So.. my point is.. maybe we don't know everything there is to know about geoengineering but we may very well be faced with the choice of a gauranteed doom that we do know vs an engineering solution that we may not be able to 100% gaurantee the exact outcome. It's a terrible decision to make but if that day comes the more seriously we take geoengineering now the more we will know and the better position we will be in then. If that happens then the naysayers who discounted geoengineering today and discouraged persuing that possible option will not have been our freinds!
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Yah, it's the one that sent real people to another world 40 years ago and has only managed to send R/C devices since.
Again, if everything that could have some important use to the military is kept from the public then the rest of us do what? Go back to living in caves? Oh, wait.. those might be good bomb shelters...
People have been building their own mills for far less than your $2,500 for a long time now. With the 'maker movement' cheaper, more available mills are a given regardless of anything DD does. Then there is all of the used factory equipment that is becoming available quite cheap at auctions as the manufacturing industry keeps dying. Check out Craigslist some time. I'm constantly seeing metalworking shops that are going out of business selling off their tools in my area.
Surely somebody would realize they can make a gun on one without DD specifically calling their mill a gun making device! All I see that is unique coming from DD in regard to making a metal gun is marketing fluff.
'...article keeps mentioning how this technology â" used commonly as an acoustic filter â" has "military applications."'
Sure. Soldiers communicate. So do civilians. A soldier has to shit too. I guess if they were stealing the recipee for Charmin that would also be military secrets.
The top two parties are really really bad. But.. most of the third party so called options... bat shit insane!
Having previously worked at a helpdesk I can only say one thing..
they are creating an abomination!
What keeps the surface of the concrete from "growing"?
Is it possible then that the ancestors of the first tetrapods had dormant genes for being warm blooded even before they walked up onto the land?
In many cases, yes. There's always the naturalist hippies though... I bet we end up seeing a lot more of those as future generations don't take up their parent's faith.
but it was never hers. It was company provided!
I've been using a rolling release of Linux for years. The whole concept of having to start over when a new version comes out seems so antiquated.
On the other hand.. I don't see how this can work for a closed, comercial product unless they can sell people on the subscription model. I'd say that would be a tough sell but then again.. people buy crappy hardware that needs replaced in a year or two. People subscribe to access libraries of movies and music rather than permanently buy recordings. Maybe it's only a tough sell to me.
That's not what the article is about. The article is about a fight over their right to distribute plans for the Liberator. That is an all-plastic 3d printed gun.
Uh, no.
The article was about digital plans for the Liberator, a 3D printed gun which is meant to be printed in plastic.
The last I heard their mill was just a nifty little CNC mill. It's good for making guns and that's what they market for but it's nothing new. If you have the skill and knowlege to make a gun with it then you already have the skill and knowlege to make a gun with tons of other machines which have been available for a long time.
But have they been actively developed during that time? Have they had the kind of development effort that the internal combustion engine has enjoyed?
I'm all for DD supporting second amendment rights but come on... I still can barely believe that people are actually printing guns.
Sure.. with some super-expensive, totally out of reach equipment you can print a nice metal gun at many many times the price of making it the old fashioned way. But plastic guns? Really... let me type that again... PLASTIC F'ING GUNS!!
Law abiding citizen or criminal... I think a person shooting a plastic gun is mostly a threat to themself. One of these things is going to blow up in somebody's face!
Those who support individual rights can call 3d printed guns a great thing. Those who fear inanimate objects and bogeymen can call it a disaster. I'll just call it a boatload of Darwin Awards waiting to happen!
Yes, may their significant others do so and if they have none then may the mate of their dreams take the job.
My Droid Bionic plus Lapdock have been great for me.
Granted.. the software IS mostly optimized for phone use. I'm not installing desktop stuff on there. Many apps do change their displays significantly when they are ran on a tablet as opposed to a phone. When using the lapdock they do the same thing which is awesome. They switch back to phone-mode when I unplug it.
Of course.. for 'real' desktop applications I use a VNC app. That's fine by me though. I already 'babysit' a desktop. (keep applications up to date, etc...). I don't really want a laptop because that would be just like having a second desktop to babysit. VNC on my phone in the lapdock with an unlimitted data connection is perfect for me!
I have a 30 year old Panasonic and a 29 year old that I don't remember the brand name. They both get lots of use and still work great!
No you don't! You can do it with just one. That's how it was done originally and many Hams stil do it that way. It's called a straight key. You just hold your finger down longer for a dah, shorter for a dit.
There are apps already out there for this using either one or two buttons. Some can even work both ways based on preference. They just need to be ported to the watch.
I've never seen a break key. Interesting idea. I'm not sure why/how you would use it. Instead of pressing a break key just spend that same time pressing nothing.
Then again I am thinking more of actually sending morse such as a ham sending CW. If you had a break key then a short press would mean you could immediately go to the next dit or dah. The keyer would still have to wait to send that dit or dah so you would need a buffer. That would be kind of weird to use since usually when sending morse one listens while sending.
I suppose that for this applicaiton a break key could work and would allow faster 'typing'. Just don't actually sound out the code and do display the characters as they are typed. It is hardly necessary though, two or one button would work just fine.
That's what you took away from my post? Really? Maybe you think that YOU are working for the next big billion dollar business?
I guess con artists who go after specific age groups shouldn't be prosecuted for being con artists. They should be sued for age descrimination because they are not offering to steal from everyone equally.
It doesn't matter where they are now. The point is there were alternatives. Without Microsoft one or more of those alternatives would have had Microsoft's user base. Of course.. that would have probably resulted in more money going into that alternative.. which would have meant more development.. taking it to a further level than it was originally developed.
So.. no, we would not all be on mainframes without Microsoft.
I guess I was being naive myself to expect unicode to work!
Most of the time when those tech companies are targeting the young people it's naiveté that they are really looking for.
They want someone who will work all their waking hours on salary and not bitch about it because they think they are "a part of something". They think they are working on the next Facebook and they are going to get rich because they are among the early employees.
In actuality they are just looking to pump as much cheap labor as they possibly can until either the kids are all burnt out and they dump them for fresh ones or they can find someone to sell the company to, likely laying everyone off but getting the owner a nice check out of the deal.
Most older people should know better by now anyway and realize they aren't missing much.
I guess I should have been shorter.
My suggestion is that when you are presented with two doors, behind one you know there is death, behind the other you have no f'ng idea. Only an idiot would chose the death one. Taking a chance is better than not having a chance!
Every study that comes out says that we need to cut unrealistic amounts of carbon and we need to do it yesterday. Meanwhile politicians only commit to mandates that aren't even as good as what realistically could be done and industry just continues on as usual.
Do you all think this problem is going to solve itself?
On the hopeful side... at least once everything that naturally lives on Antarctica is dead because it can't adapt fast enough we will have a nice chunk of land we can bomb to create the nuclear winter we will need just to keep alive.
We know climate change is real. We know that humans are causing it. We know it is going to cause bad things for us. (at least those of us who prefer logical thought over blind emotion know these things)
We don't know exactly how bad it is going to get nor do we know exactly how quickly it will get there. We don't know exactly how much we need to cut back on greenhouse emisions but all indications are that we need to cut back a lot and quickly.
In other words.. we don't know that it is even possible anymore to avert catastrophy by simply cutting back. Even if it is possible we don't know that it can be done at a cost we are willing to pay. How many of us are willing to give up our technological comforts and go roam the savanna? I'm not! Is that what it would take? I don't know. Maybe!
So.. my point is.. maybe we don't know everything there is to know about geoengineering but we may very well be faced with the choice of a gauranteed doom that we do know vs an engineering solution that we may not be able to 100% gaurantee the exact outcome. It's a terrible decision to make but if that day comes the more seriously we take geoengineering now the more we will know and the better position we will be in then. If that happens then the naysayers who discounted geoengineering today and discouraged persuing that possible option will not have been our freinds!