In a real makerspace, if you know how to weld, you'll become popular pretty quickly.
Yep. Twenty years of programming and engineering never made me popular. Then I learned how to weld at my local Techshop, and three days later a cute chick asked me to help her fix her wheelbarrow. I supposed I should have flirted or asked to go to Starbucks for a coffee. But I was so stunned that a girl was actually interested in my skillset, that I flubbed it.
Last Thursday I booked a normal taxi (in Oregon) to take me to the airport. He picked up another guy as well. He asked us first and we got a discount (but the driver made more.. the discount was not 50%).
So I don't see how ride sharing and taxi service are mutually exclusive.
You could do that, or you could buy a router pre-configured with OSS from the factory. It's not even expensive at ~ $50.
They don't seem to offer a model with GigE. That's an abject failure, today. Anything contemporary and not heinously expensive?
FWIW, I'm using a C2D PC with 1xGigE, and a QFE card for routing and some ethernet ports, and 5-port switches on both the GigE and 100Mbps segments, then a Mikrotik Routerboard (411, IIRC) running OpenWRT to handle the WiFi. The total cost is somewhere around $120, but it does dramatically more...
If the idea is to make it available to students, then it should be on campus.
It shouldn't be anywhere near the library, because it will be noisy if it's any good.
Because if you call it workshop upper middle class guys will think it's a place where dirty. low-class, lowlifes work with old techniques like welders
Welding is a good way to make stuff, and even an upper middle class guy should be able to learn it. The equipment for MIG welding is simple and cheap. Any decent workerspace/makeshop should have one. You also want a CNC vertical mill, and lathe, even if it is just a table top, like a Sherline. If you have a Techshop nearby, you should partner with them. If there is a Techshop a day's drive away, you should pay them a visit. You will learn a lot. You might talk to them about opening a branch in your town. Also, talk to your insurance company, and make sure what you are planning is allowed under your existing policy.
8) People will only buy tech made outside of America, costing America jobs and draining away expertise.
It seems to me that Fukushima didn't have a design problem as much as it had a bad siting problem.
Fukushima had three problems. One, design. The design is very old and not very good by modern standards. Two, siting. It was put somewhere even ancient Japanese knew was a bad idea. Three, NIMBY. Area residents didn't want to look at generators on pylons.
So in real life, a faster data connection really does create a better viewing experience
No. This would only be true if the people at Netflix were complete morons. They measure the latency, and adjust the buffer. So as long as your bandwidth is good enough, and the latency is reasonably consistent, you are fine.
so Verizon is technically correct
No they aren't. They are flat out lying.
Just make encryption that isn't ridiculously easy to crack illegal, or subject to severe regulation and taxation. Get an expert devoid of care for privacy (say, Dorothy Denning) to endorse the law on the Sunday Morning talk shows. Cast anyone who cares about secure encryption as a bitter and deranged malcontent. Tell people it's for the Common Good.
Problem solved.
Bulletproof and hardness are different things. One exists the other doesn't.
Nothing is "Bulletproof". The proper term is bullet resistant, as in it can resist small arms fire. About the only thing you could even consider bullet proof is multiple feet of reinforced concrete buried underground. Remember, no matter how resistant it is, there is always a bigger bullet. Most of the bullet resistant armoring sold to heads of state or light military armoring can't even stop high power 50 caliber rounds. It is my understanding the presidential limo has armoring and windows that can stop a 50 caliber round, it also weigh like 12 tons. And just about nothing short of a tank can stop 2 inch or larger rounds.
Once you get up to the 6-12 inch rounds there isn't much of anything that can stop them but the solution I mentioned above. Once you are up to that size the energy that needs to be stopped is just beyond what most materials can withstand.
Armoring is constantly evolving to increase resistance but nothing is bulletproof. Not the vest the cop is wearing nor the cars sold to heads of state.
The only "entitlement generation" that I've ever encountered is the Baby Boomers and it's getting worse as they get older. Their view seems to be that now that they are retiring they are entitled to all the social security money their generation spent while docking GenX and the Millennials their social security to pay the boomers. They also appear to have a great majority of participants that believe they aren't responsible for paying for anything with a cut taxes attitude that disrespects the infrastructure investments they benefited from and has a complete disregard for future generations.
The Boomers are the "me me me" generation.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
