What Is Consumer 3-D Printing Really Good For?

The view from a height from someone with access to commercial/industrial grade tech and design tools.

The first problem I have with a 3D printer in the home is that I am asthmatic.

I could show you the stones marking the graves of family members who worked with friable asbestos and volatile organics, but the geek is as resistant to talk like this as the Tea Bagger is of climate change.

Health and 3-D Printing

I am old-school enough to prefer fact-based news to snark and innuendo. Tell me what you can prove, not what you think I want to hear.

International travel before the invention of the railroad and the steamboat was not something to be contemplated lightly. It was an expensive, time-consuming and dangerous business.

Legal requirements are not the same thing as practical necessities.

United States passport

You are over-looking class distinctions which your great-grandparents could not. Not there haven't always been people you would never be able to speak to without very careful preparation.

Emily Post

Not many have been willing to have Freenet traffic resident on their systems or in transit through their networks. That the files are encrypted or fragmented doesn't seem to matter very much.

The geek loves complication and conspiracy for its own sake. He will hang around with the drug lords and the porn kings because he thinks it makes him look cool --- and no force on earth can keep his big mouth shut online or off.

The working spy lives quietly on a modest paycheck, never talks shop, and posts pictures of her grandma's kittens to Facebook, along with everything else that really matters.

The opening session speakers at The World Council of Science Journalists were Tim Hunt, representing Nobel Science, and Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook , Pulitzer Prize Journalism.

The biennial WCSJ conference is top-tier ---- legitimately "news for nerds."

The contrast between Matt Taylor and his guns and lace lingerie tee and the background shots of the women working the Philae landing can't have been far from anyone's mind.

Nobel Prize winner resigns a position after sexist comments publicized

Open Source projects on the scale of Firefox and LibreOffice are all about what their patrons are wiling to pay for ---

and patrons of the arts on the grand scale, the state, the church, the merchant prince, have always had a targeted audience of "users" whose needs and expectations must be met.

The artist, architect or engineer, who put his own desires first soon finds himself off the payroll.

These forums may be technically "open to the public," but that doesn't make them visible, accessible or inviting to anyone but the geek.

Which is one of the principal reasons why the geek gets sandbagged every time the infinitely greater mass of users move in a direction he doesn't want or expect them to go.

Integrated DRM media play in or through the browser will serve as an example.

His defenses there have crumbled.

Tell me why you shouldn't be treating any server OS the same way --- whatever its market share or geek cred.

I never wanted a saddle horse, but I haven't seen the need to post that inconsequential fact to every equine forum on the net.

That said, I bought a year's subscription to XBox Music on Pi Day for $31.40.

30 million tracks available for streaming or downloads to up to four devices.

Broadly representative of all musical genres, all eras of recorded music, hit and miss when it comes to the spoken word, no audiobooks. Metadata is sparse. No album notes, no lyrics, but still a resource that is miles wide and deep and useful even to the hardcore CD and Vinyl enthusiast.

P2P and USENET are bottomless time sinks, here you can summon up 50 to 100 albums or tracks for sampling in one click and fill your shopping cart or playlist from there.

If are you living near the US border, as almost every Canadian does, you have to be comfortable using both systems.

This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (MAPS and PHOTOS)

The HP Stream 8 will serve as an example of a Win 10 upgradeable budget Win 8.1 with Bing tablet.

WIMBOOT with Compressed OS. If you are wondering why you haven't seen the Win 10 upgrade tray app on your RAM-starved tablet or laptop this is the reason. A solution is in the works.

Important updates for Win 10 home users will be automatically downloaded in the background. But not over a metered connection.

The Win 10 upgrade tray app that frays the geek mind does a compatibility check. You won't even see the thing unless your system is ready for the upgrade. As for the installer, it just sits there until you are ready to launch it.