I think its more a case of FOSS office is great at being everything but being Microsoft Office, it does not have the "looks like MS Office, works exactly like MS Office" comfort.

Spot on, all this pursuit of youth is futile, i dont ever want to be that stupid again.

We also routinely humanely kill millions of cattle every year, why not just use the same method, a large metal cylinder driven by compressed air into the side of the head. Its about as instantanious as you can get. Alternativly the guilliotine was also considered to be pretty damm fast.

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We should also remember this was not just a rape, it was a horrific gang rape and assult. Aside from the trauma of the rape itself, this poor woman was beaten with an iron bar and then raped with that bar to the point where parts of her intestines where pulled outside of her body. This would have been a horiffic event in any country , not just india. Also dont forget this completly innocent woman died of these nighmare injuries she sustained.

That is why so many people feel sickend by this act.

Arm, avr and pic all have gnu c++ compiler environments.

GMO corn is a lawsuite waiting to happen to somebody because genes some organisation belives belongs to them starts breaking out into the general pool. I religiously avoid gmo because I don't want to encourage or support scumbag companies like Monsanto, who are trying to sew up ownership of whole classes of organisms, by claiming their deliberate contamination is IPR theft.

The 3d printing part of it allows the creation of meta materials that cannot be created by any other means, with a fine enough printing system you can control the internal geometric structure of the material. All sorts of weird properties can created. The "cool" is not in the 3d printing, that is just a tool to create the meta material. The "cool" is in the structure of the material Itself.

Short of a working nano assembler tech, 3d printing is about as close as you can get to creating virtual alloys of materials with complex internal geometric structures.

Here in the philippines, water is often kept cool by storing it in porus pots, the water slowly seeps through the walls of the clay pot, and evaporates from the outside, there are no channels as its using the micro pore structure of the earthen ceramic pot. The evaporation lowers the temperature of the whole pot.

Checkout the "cyclone pcb mill", basicaly a small pcb focused cnc rig, for isolation milling and drilling custom pcbs.

It is almost completly 3d printed and can use a quadcoptor motor or a dremel as a spindle, its essentialy a small cnc machine made with 3d printer parts.

If you want a makerbot like machine, then the latest flashforge creator pro is a fantastic clone of the replicator 1. Dont get taken in by the flashforge dreamer which is a POS, its also the same machine being pushed by dremel.

on the software side you can use slic3r or cura with the GPX module, dont listen to those who say you can only use makerware or repg

Interesting, the first time they did that, it would trigger a wave of replacement world wide, so you get the situation where they wont because they dont want to burn that card.

It long past the point where the world needs a reliable supply of non-US based technology components, i now consider almost everything originating from the US as being irrevocably compromised. And china is not much better.

We have sold our souls to the devil for the nice tunes he plays, and now we have to pay.

There are numerous mobile wifi router/bridges which can plug into a wired network and make ot available over wifi, either as a bridged or routed connection. At home they can also be used as a wifi range extender.

For example

http://www.tp-link.com/en/prod...

I bought a flashforge, who are ripping them off......

Agreed, this abhorrence of open plan offices seems to be a percularly american trait. I have no problens focusing in an open office, being able to tune out distractions is all part of the trade.