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Comment Re:Free! Free from the contractors! (Score 1) 100

Its not the forging, its the tempering. Until we have large scale/atomic precision printers (I wouldn't hold my breath for that to arrive) you're printers won't be able to create the mono-crystalline alloys required for modern Jet engines. Huh, that makes me think: a metallic 3-d printer is conceptually a forge turned inside out.

Comment Why limit it to an OS? (Score 1) 145

How about instead of tailoring your program to a platform and having to write it three times, just learn how to get the most out of the Java Virtual Machine and being able to run it on pretty much any PC on the planet. You don't even need to use JAVA, there are several languages that were designed for the JVM, and most others have are a library and a few compiler options away from being instantly cross platform.

Comment Re:Because lung cancer is great for the rural poor (Score 1) 1143

No its not. You have no idea how bad grafting is. Anti-bribery laws simply aren't enforced anymore. They will not get a new and better $700 stove. Instead they will be directed to a brand new stove company owned by one of the senator's second cousins, the stoves will cost $1200, of which $700 is subsidized, but the stove is actually not as good as their old one and will break down after two years,

Comment Re:National Interest? (Score 2) 382

If you actually look at it, the pork comes from congress. The military has historically gotten more effect for less overall money when it had more discretion over what to do with that money. If 80% of your budget was dictated by a team made up mostly of sociopaths, of whom which maybe one in ten at best knows his ass from his elbows...

Comment You don't need to (Score 1) 227

Unless you are using a programming language over than I am, you are using an object oriented programming. It is a huge mistake to forget the basic tenets of OOP. In this case, its Encapsulation that you need to leverage. If you hide the framework behind some of your own classes and use good design practices, you can hot-swap APIs with minimal fuss. One minute working on good design will save you an hour of programming and a year of debugging.

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