Do you really believe the only way Facebook can make money from this is to turn it into a Facebook device?
Late reply but, Yes. Its pretty much a no-duh answer. They spent TWO BILLION. They must see and awfully big opportunity to make much more money to drop that spend that much. They may not tie it in at first. But sooner or later they will start throwing money at developers to make facebook enabled VR games. And it all goes downhill from there.
Precisely. My bet is 3D printing will wind up becoming another photo booth at your local mega mart. Go online, upload or pick your design and then place the order. Then either have it delivered or take a trip to the mega mart to pick it up. That or online companies will offer design and printing services without brick and mortar.
Only a hand full of people will actually have 3D printers in their homes or shops.
So, even though people bag FB, it is one of the smartest-run businesses on the face of the planet.
Jee, how much is FB paying you per hour to post this crap. What, they didn't have any spare/. accounts kicking around so they had to post anon? Are you one of the same shills that is astroturfing on reddit?
Facebook is essentially trying to squash the negative backlash from the community by praising how they will bring Oculus to the next level or some such nonsense. They also claim to not force people onto facebook to game or develop. They say that now while holding a knife behind their back with their fingers crossed. We aren't that stupid.
Oculus was a promising piece of tech for the gaming and VR community. Then FB comes along and dumps 2 billion on them. You think FB is going to spend 2 billion on a VR headset for the gaming community and NOT try to tie it into their social media platform to turn every user into a cash cow?
I wait for yet another shill to come along and tell me how I am overreacting, being childish, selfish, jealous or some other nonsense (or mod me troll). And then they will prattle on about how FB is branching out into other markets and how they "promised" not to tie it to social.
Maybe I am overreacting but I was hoping for a real sincere effort funded by the community and actual gaming companies who give a damn (like Valve) to bring us real VR.
On a lighter note: The only good thing is they are throwing money at is BtrFS which is a good thing. That is once piece of tech they cant monetize and turn into a cash cow. Though I could imagine having to sign into FB to access my files and you can "like" 2014-03-28_accounting_daily-backup.tar.gz
We have a spare glove box here at work that handles overflow from our main glovebox. It used to be our main glovebox until we bought a much larger, more modern box. It has two Pentium 3 computers running Windows 98 but they boot straight to DOS and run the control software. One PC runs the glove box environmental controls and vacuum airlocks/ovens. The second PC runs an ancient DOS based motion control system.
Here is the problem: Replacing the glovebox is at least 100,000 USD. And that does not include upgrading the motion system which I estimated between 20 and 60 thousand depending on how much of the motion system we want to replace.
So now we look at how much work the glove box does per year: about twenty thousand dollars. So the boss has to justify dropping over 120-160 thousand dollars and waiting over 5-8 years to recoup the cost. Does that make sense? Of course not. We need the box but at the same time its not worth the cost to upgrade. So you live with it. I have a small stock of old computer parts to keep it going along with block level disk backups. I could upgrade the environmental controls but the engineering cost would still wind up costing tens of thousands of dollars, months of design and a lot of downtime. Not worth it.
And if it breaks? Oh well. It wont kill us, we just might have to pay someone overtime to get the extra work out.
Those face design looks perfectly readable. Two sets of numbers and the little hand points perfectly to the hours and the big hand points perfectly to the minutes. along with the seconds hand. True the minute numbers are quite small but at a glance you can guess it pretty easily.
I want to redefine the second and do away with the awkward 24/60/60 nonsense that is time. 10 hour days, 100 minute hours and 100 second minutes for a total of 100,000 seconds in a day.
Also the US needs to kill AM/PM, its simply unnecessary and redundant.
Its not that bad. The problem I have is most supermarkets treat the self checkout line as an express checkout. My guess would be its because many people suck at using the technology and jam up the lines. You see them stare blankly at the screen when something does not work right. They still have an a cashier to manage the machines in case something goes wrong or someone needs assistance (This is in Pathmark, Waldbaums, and Stop & Shop). My only beef is the self checkouts at stop and shop or at least the one I used to go to, it had the worlds worst scanners. You would stand there trying to scan an item for 30 seconds until the cashier came around thinking you were an idiot only to experience the same problem and manually key the UPC code in.
I go through self checkouts pretty fast. Scan, scan scan, punch in produce numbers or do a search and I'm done. The only thing I can see that would make me slower is that cashiers have remembered the 4 digit produce codes that I have to look up.
Sometimes you have to compromise. They spent an awful lot of time working on this project. And I am sure they don't want to let the ship sink because of past ideologies they held dear. If it brings them more devs and gets the platform rolling, so be it.
I wonder if this perception is merely a result of better communication. I would wager a good majority of people have always been pretty damn ignorant and happy with it. But the internet combined with other forms of communication have given them a way to connect and share which turns them into a seething mass of ignorance. So we went from isolated pockets of stupid to a giant coherent blob of stupid.
This is why we have resurgences of supposedly eradicated diseases in the west such as rubella, measles and mumps. Before the internet the crazies were isolated into pockets. You couldn't google alien anal probes or vaccines causing autism. So the crazy chatter was nothing more than some background noise. Now anyone can do a google search and be bombarded by a flood of information that they cannot properly analyze. Since they aren't experts they can't sift through the mess that is full of fact, half truths and outright lies. So they play it safe and go with what they perceive as the safest route. And that route has lead many think its safer to NOT vaccinate their child because of a rumor that they cause autism.
When someone says years, you normally understand that to mean two or more years. If you are the GP then I understood your use of years as if he was fighting this for 2 or 3 years. It has been barely over a year since Maron and others were notified.
Last month Personal Audio filed lawsuits against three of the biggest podcasting companies: How Stuff Works, TogiEntertainment, Inc., and ACE Broadcasting, which produces the Adam Carolla Show and other podcasts. Smaller podcasters, like Maron, also received letters from Personal Audio inviting them to license the patent for a fee.
- Too much faffing about to build the things (or too much cost to acquire them pre-built). - Too much faffing about having to calibrate, adjust, tinker and play with them to get good results.
These are early prototype designs, DI and open source projects. There are commercial printers of varying size that come assembled and ready to go.
- Too fragile (i.e. you can't throw them about, take them to a friend's house).
To be fair you can't throw about your laptop, tablet, TV or PC. The systems that are fragile are fragile simply because they are DIY kits that are sloppily put together. If you have a proper case and a good build then you shouldn't have to worry about a thing.
- Too reliant on a small set of manufacturers (for the source materials, software, etc.)
I know right! Just like how a big commercial CNC machine uses off the shelf parts. If my Fanuc controller dies I can buy a new one on newegg right? If the servo dies I can just pop another on there from Sears. Sorry to be so sarcastic but welcome to the words of robotics and CNC machines. 3D printers are way more off the shelf than anything a commercial company has produced. Disclaimer: my family used to run a small CNC shop, 2 vertical milling centers and 3 turning centers. If anything broke you had to spend big bucks to get repaired boards as new boards didn't exist. Or you have Japanese guys come in who don't speak english but can repair the machine for 3 grand plus parts which was another 2-3 grand. That was for our large Wasino turning center with an OLD Fanuc controller. Talk about proprietary.
- Still no established 3D printing "standard" in an OS. Sure, there are lots of "almost-standards" but I'd rather avoid another mess of things not being compatible - non-compatible printers just puts us back into the range of "I have to buy the same printer/manufacturer again because I don't want to change all my setup / software / source material" but in an era where it's too expensive to perform the current "Sod it, throw it away, buy the cheapest one again, suffer the time lost" scenario we have with 2D printers.
3D printers happily use RS274D G code which is an international standard though there are a few slight variants (ISO, DIN, etc.). This is the same format used on CNC machines, robots and even used for making printed circuit boards via the Gerber format which is G code. There doesn't need to be an OS standard, all you need is a proper CAD + CAM program that makes it easy for the user. As of now 3D printing is still closely related to the commercial CNC process which is CAD -> CAM -> CNC. That is intimidating to say the least. 3D printer makers need to make a CAM program that is either standalone or part of a 3D CAD package or plugin that enables simple file -> print. Perhaps a template file that defines the printers volume and then use that template paired with a CAM script to make it more of a WYSIWYG type program. The CAM program should automatically upload the G code to the printer and let the printer run on its own.
- 3D models are just that much harder to make and print reliably. The two examples of software you point out? Both licensed only for home use. Google Sketchup is the same. As soon as you say 3D, you have to pay for software (and driver integration, or learning-curve) so we've jumped back 20 years again). Then every home-built printer will have different tolerances and results.
This. I will say that the main hurdle isn't the hardware (and associated software/firmware) but the software for creating the printed parts. Anything commercial is costly and you can go cheap but you get what you pay for. Autocad on a hobbiest budget? Not a chance unless you have a few grand you want to burn. The 3D printing community needs to work on a competent CAD package.
I'm not a hunter and even I can see the simple logic which you have missed. Simply put, hunting with a bow is much harder than with a rifle. You have to get closer and be much, much more stealthy. You can rifle hunt with a scope and take down prey from 200 meters or more. With a bow you have to be close, probably under 50 meters. You also have to take aim, draw, and release without spooking the animal. Olympic archery is what, 70 meters? And that is on a range where you can be as noisy and full of movement as you want.
So they limit the rifle hunters to a smaller window as they can potentially harm the game population to a point where they are now over hunting. The bow hunters aren't a threat to the game populations as they take in far less prey.
Those two food items can cause severe illness if eaten uncooked. My guess is a long time ago the Jews saw a connection between certain food items and illness and thus banned them. Its likely Islam then copied those laws as the two religions share a very similar set of rules concerning food.
There won't ever be a remote kill switch. Its such a stupid idea it won't be implemented. The only people who would push for it are idiotic nanny state morons who want to protect the children from dangerous speeders or car chases. Meanwhile they become an awesome attack vector for hackers looking to fuck up the evening commute for a laugh.
The only thing I can see becoming a reality are those high power "RF cannons" which emit such a high power signal that they scramble a vehicles electrical system effectively killing it. Though I suspect there could be legal problems if its use results in a deadly crash and the victims family sues the cops for wrongful death.
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Do you really believe the only way Facebook can make money from this is to turn it into a Facebook device?
Late reply but, Yes. Its pretty much a no-duh answer. They spent TWO BILLION. They must see and awfully big opportunity to make much more money to drop that spend that much. They may not tie it in at first. But sooner or later they will start throwing money at developers to make facebook enabled VR games. And it all goes downhill from there.
The headline should read: How Facebook and Oculus are Astroturfing to Make You Think it Could Be a Great Combination
Precisely. My bet is 3D printing will wind up becoming another photo booth at your local mega mart. Go online, upload or pick your design and then place the order. Then either have it delivered or take a trip to the mega mart to pick it up. That or online companies will offer design and printing services without brick and mortar.
Only a hand full of people will actually have 3D printers in their homes or shops.
Jee, how much is FB paying you per hour to post this crap. What, they didn't have any spare /. accounts kicking around so they had to post anon?
Are you one of the same shills that is astroturfing on reddit?
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/21d2bi/proof_with_absolute_evidence_that_facebook_shills/
http://www.infowars.com/facebook-accused-of-astroturfing-reddit-to-silence-criticism/
Facebook is essentially trying to squash the negative backlash from the community by praising how they will bring Oculus to the next level or some such nonsense. They also claim to not force people onto facebook to game or develop. They say that now while holding a knife behind their back with their fingers crossed. We aren't that stupid.
Oculus was a promising piece of tech for the gaming and VR community. Then FB comes along and dumps 2 billion on them. You think FB is going to spend 2 billion on a VR headset for the gaming community and NOT try to tie it into their social media platform to turn every user into a cash cow?
I wait for yet another shill to come along and tell me how I am overreacting, being childish, selfish, jealous or some other nonsense (or mod me troll). And then they will prattle on about how FB is branching out into other markets and how they "promised" not to tie it to social.
Maybe I am overreacting but I was hoping for a real sincere effort funded by the community and actual gaming companies who give a damn (like Valve) to bring us real VR.
On a lighter note:
The only good thing is they are throwing money at is BtrFS which is a good thing. That is once piece of tech they cant monetize and turn into a cash cow. Though I could imagine having to sign into FB to access my files and you can "like" 2014-03-28_accounting_daily-backup.tar.gz
We have a spare glove box here at work that handles overflow from our main glovebox. It used to be our main glovebox until we bought a much larger, more modern box. It has two Pentium 3 computers running Windows 98 but they boot straight to DOS and run the control software. One PC runs the glove box environmental controls and vacuum airlocks/ovens. The second PC runs an ancient DOS based motion control system.
Here is the problem: Replacing the glovebox is at least 100,000 USD. And that does not include upgrading the motion system which I estimated between 20 and 60 thousand depending on how much of the motion system we want to replace.
So now we look at how much work the glove box does per year: about twenty thousand dollars. So the boss has to justify dropping over 120-160 thousand dollars and waiting over 5-8 years to recoup the cost. Does that make sense? Of course not. We need the box but at the same time its not worth the cost to upgrade. So you live with it. I have a small stock of old computer parts to keep it going along with block level disk backups. I could upgrade the environmental controls but the engineering cost would still wind up costing tens of thousands of dollars, months of design and a lot of downtime. Not worth it.
And if it breaks? Oh well. It wont kill us, we just might have to pay someone overtime to get the extra work out.
http://staticfree.info/projects/24h_clock/
Those face design looks perfectly readable. Two sets of numbers and the little hand points perfectly to the hours and the big hand points perfectly to the minutes. along with the seconds hand. True the minute numbers are quite small but at a glance you can guess it pretty easily.
He even made a real clock: http://staticfree.info/projects/24h_clock/target_clock_mod
I want to redefine the second and do away with the awkward 24/60/60 nonsense that is time. 10 hour days, 100 minute hours and 100 second minutes for a total of 100,000 seconds in a day.
Also the US needs to kill AM/PM, its simply unnecessary and redundant.
One at a time /., we are still waiting for Theo de Raadt's Interview as well as RMS and Jonathan Coulton.
The only interviewee to respond in a timely manner was Eric S. Raymond.
Agent: Tamerlan Tsarnev
Google: Did you mean: Tamerlan Tsarnaev
That would have solved the problem.
I hope it comes with the e-iano upgrade. I always wanted to hear all of my songs played as a single ragtime tune.
Its not that bad. The problem I have is most supermarkets treat the self checkout line as an express checkout. My guess would be its because many people suck at using the technology and jam up the lines. You see them stare blankly at the screen when something does not work right. They still have an a cashier to manage the machines in case something goes wrong or someone needs assistance (This is in Pathmark, Waldbaums, and Stop & Shop). My only beef is the self checkouts at stop and shop or at least the one I used to go to, it had the worlds worst scanners. You would stand there trying to scan an item for 30 seconds until the cashier came around thinking you were an idiot only to experience the same problem and manually key the UPC code in.
I go through self checkouts pretty fast. Scan, scan scan, punch in produce numbers or do a search and I'm done. The only thing I can see that would make me slower is that cashiers have remembered the 4 digit produce codes that I have to look up.
Gimme a litre o' cola.
Sometimes you have to compromise. They spent an awful lot of time working on this project. And I am sure they don't want to let the ship sink because of past ideologies they held dear. If it brings them more devs and gets the platform rolling, so be it.
I wonder if this perception is merely a result of better communication. I would wager a good majority of people have always been pretty damn ignorant and happy with it. But the internet combined with other forms of communication have given them a way to connect and share which turns them into a seething mass of ignorance. So we went from isolated pockets of stupid to a giant coherent blob of stupid.
This is why we have resurgences of supposedly eradicated diseases in the west such as rubella, measles and mumps. Before the internet the crazies were isolated into pockets. You couldn't google alien anal probes or vaccines causing autism. So the crazy chatter was nothing more than some background noise. Now anyone can do a google search and be bombarded by a flood of information that they cannot properly analyze. Since they aren't experts they can't sift through the mess that is full of fact, half truths and outright lies. So they play it safe and go with what they perceive as the safest route. And that route has lead many think its safer to NOT vaccinate their child because of a rumor that they cause autism.
Same goes for politics.
When someone says years, you normally understand that to mean two or more years. If you are the GP then I understood your use of years as if he was fighting this for 2 or 3 years. It has been barely over a year since Maron and others were notified.
More like a year: http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/marc-maron-podcast-patent-interview/
The article is dated March 12, 2013.
"Overpriced designer products that rely on being the "in thing" anyone?"
I suspect that I will not care any more about the "in thing" than I already do.
These are early prototype designs, DI and open source projects. There are commercial printers of varying size that come assembled and ready to go.
To be fair you can't throw about your laptop, tablet, TV or PC. The systems that are fragile are fragile simply because they are DIY kits that are sloppily put together. If you have a proper case and a good build then you shouldn't have to worry about a thing.
I know right! Just like how a big commercial CNC machine uses off the shelf parts. If my Fanuc controller dies I can buy a new one on newegg right? If the servo dies I can just pop another on there from Sears. Sorry to be so sarcastic but welcome to the words of robotics and CNC machines. 3D printers are way more off the shelf than anything a commercial company has produced. Disclaimer: my family used to run a small CNC shop, 2 vertical milling centers and 3 turning centers. If anything broke you had to spend big bucks to get repaired boards as new boards didn't exist. Or you have Japanese guys come in who don't speak english but can repair the machine for 3 grand plus parts which was another 2-3 grand. That was for our large Wasino turning center with an OLD Fanuc controller. Talk about proprietary.
3D printers happily use RS274D G code which is an international standard though there are a few slight variants (ISO, DIN, etc.). This is the same format used on CNC machines, robots and even used for making printed circuit boards via the Gerber format which is G code. There doesn't need to be an OS standard, all you need is a proper CAD + CAM program that makes it easy for the user. As of now 3D printing is still closely related to the commercial CNC process which is CAD -> CAM -> CNC. That is intimidating to say the least. 3D printer makers need to make a CAM program that is either standalone or part of a 3D CAD package or plugin that enables simple file -> print. Perhaps a template file that defines the printers volume and then use that template paired with a CAM script to make it more of a WYSIWYG type program. The CAM program should automatically upload the G code to the printer and let the printer run on its own.
This. I will say that the main hurdle isn't the hardware (and associated software/firmware) but the software for creating the printed parts. Anything commercial is costly and you can go cheap but you get what you pay for. Autocad on a hobbiest budget? Not a chance unless you have a few grand you want to burn.
The 3D printing community needs to work on a competent CAD package.
I'm not a hunter and even I can see the simple logic which you have missed. Simply put, hunting with a bow is much harder than with a rifle. You have to get closer and be much, much more stealthy. You can rifle hunt with a scope and take down prey from 200 meters or more. With a bow you have to be close, probably under 50 meters. You also have to take aim, draw, and release without spooking the animal. Olympic archery is what, 70 meters? And that is on a range where you can be as noisy and full of movement as you want.
So they limit the rifle hunters to a smaller window as they can potentially harm the game population to a point where they are now over hunting. The bow hunters aren't a threat to the game populations as they take in far less prey.
mmmm yes. I suspect the radars were nothing more than satellite dishes attached to a box full of pinball machine parts.
I bet they found the wallet in a pair of pants when they did the laundry. I have made the same mistake.
Finally! I have been waiting for next gen Iris graphics since like forever!
Those two food items can cause severe illness if eaten uncooked. My guess is a long time ago the Jews saw a connection between certain food items and illness and thus banned them. Its likely Islam then copied those laws as the two religions share a very similar set of rules concerning food.
There won't ever be a remote kill switch. Its such a stupid idea it won't be implemented. The only people who would push for it are idiotic nanny state morons who want to protect the children from dangerous speeders or car chases. Meanwhile they become an awesome attack vector for hackers looking to fuck up the evening commute for a laugh.
The only thing I can see becoming a reality are those high power "RF cannons" which emit such a high power signal that they scramble a vehicles electrical system effectively killing it. Though I suspect there could be legal problems if its use results in a deadly crash and the victims family sues the cops for wrongful death.
I think we need to install a camera on your computer to prevent posting while enraged.