Nothing described there is outside the ability of current CNC technology in the context of additive manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing). This is what perplexes me with the announcement. As someone who has a 3D printer, and designs my own trinkets in CAD to make, I can't understand what exactly are they talking about? From what I can piece together, they want to replace the CNC system, which has been around for over 60 years, with a new setup. I sceptical as to why as well.

To give you a brief rundown of what gcode is, it's a set of coordinate instructions and other codes which are a simple way of instructing the machine. The whole idea is that you aren't running machine code, but rather a simplified code where the machine software then translates into manipulations of the machine. Coordinates are the main instructions which tell the machine where to move its tool head, spindle, or extruding head, but there are other codes for more complex machines to change tools, change materials, do custom functions, which are usually machine specific. Gcode can easily be written by hand. It's not fun for complex things, and for additive manufacture, it's much longer. Making honey comb, it's easy, you just program the machine to do it. It's a matter for the process or machine that determine the limitations, but the software/code side has never been the problem. It also follows the GIGO principle.

As someone with a 3D printer, I can't understand what this is meant to do?

I've never had a failure on the software side with 3D printing, from using CAD to design something, then a slicer program to setup how I want my printer to work, and produce the gcode. There's trial and error in this stage, learning how to do it, but it's just part and parcel of the technology, it's early days, and trying to automate this would drastically complicate the machines.

If this intends to replace gcode, which essentially makes current 3D printers CNC machines, then this won't catch on. Gcode is just far too engrained in manufacturing for it to be changed. The brilliant thing about gcode is you can write it out by hand, meaning, that once an automated solution works through it, it's really easy to tweak it and improve it by hand. Maybe this low level application is over the top for many people, but there's plenty of stuff where I never had to worry about doing any tweaking.

I suppose, while not ideal, that's how it should be, and largely is. No doubt why many rape allegations go nowhere.

We're a country which still bans games (hotline miami 2 was recently banned). The games industry here never became anything large anyway, and we're way too far away from the game hubs. All that ends up happening here is that we spend a lot of money on games, often times, paying well above what other regions do. The government couldn't care less about games or the industry (as long as we aren't playing games that are considered bad) as the age groups that play games, aren't big enough. We have a lot of baby boomers, and they're running the country.

There's a word limit? Dang it

Basically the police don't deal with children properly. My thinking is that universities could essentially have people help the victim by mediate their interaction with the police. But stepping in and making decisions on criminal matters doesn't help at all.

When rape allegations make the media, it's either because some important people are being protected, and hopefully the media is shaming corruption in the system, or it's because the accuser wants a trial by media and let the circus in, actively avoiding a police investigation.

Well the problem isn't going to get resolved through attempting to force mob justice or having extrajudicial proceedings. Just how is getting university administration getting involved going to solve the problem of something which is a criminal matter? It seems to me that the desired outcome is to achieve guilt by accusation alone. No rule of law, no fair trial and most of all, no testing of evidence.

I believe rape is a heinous crime. I think that it is wrong if police don't treat every individual matter with seriousness. Maybe certain procedures need to be adjusted, but if that happens, then the false allegations of rape also need to be treated seriously, and there have been news reports of women being sent to jail for a few years, because they were proven to have made up false rape allegations.

I know that usually the response from police can be very poor. I have no first hand experience, but I have spoken to a primary school principal who has the unpleasantries of dealing with issues of children being molested or raped, when the school learns of it (if the school finds out about a child being abused outside of school, it's still their duty of care to report it) police come in and they just don't know how to deal with children, dealing in legalese to

The problem is this whole beat up about campus rapes is blown way out of proportion. Case in point is the mattress carrying student, who now appears to just have been a woman scorned. So any systems are already being abused. If there's criminality going on, the only thing to do is go to the police. Police need to treat rape seriously, they generally do, but I get the feeling why certain people want this resolved outside police is because police will also treat fraudulent allegations of rape seriously.

Sadly, I am aware of that.

Because I'm not entirely happy with what I'm currently using, so it doesn't really matter.

Obsidian and inxile have largely achieved what the public expected, and have delivered fairly reasonably on time, double fine is still a worry. If you watched the documentary for the double fine adventure, you'd find that mission creep has plagued it as well, but that was completely self inflicted. Meanwhile the RPG games have been quite expansive games, and present seriously more value for money than the adventure game.

I work as a mechanical engineer, in the building industry (HVAC) and while this is also quite normal, the word that gets thrown around is variation, obviously to the contract.

Reading the article, particularly between the lines, it appears that the problem wasn't really with the studio; they were trying to get more money out of MS, but MS just decided to kill the project rather than have a cost blowout. While mission creep did kill the game, the studio didn't plan any contingency or mitigation for a cancellation (or more likely it was just sack everyone).

Youtube is the only google product I use.

And that's why I use neither firefox nor chrome (and definitely not IE). It's really annoying that selecting a browser is no longer getting one which is the best, but rather picking the one which is the least worst of the lot. For a long time I was a firefox user, but after Australis, that just did it for me, but what I replaced it with, has big problems too, but at least the UI is easy enough to use.

Not true, there was one last year in lockhart where a farmer shot his wife and three children (and then himself). That counts as a mass shooting because it satisfied the criteria of 4 or more killings.

Maybe if those links supported what you're saying, I could argue. Problem is firearm homicides and firearm suicides in Australia definitely did not peak in 1996/1997, as they had been trending downwards since the mid 1980's. The only thing is that 1996 had a big peak due to the Port Arthur massacre, but even then, more people were killed by firearms in 1992 than 1996. firearm homicides had been trending downwards since about the 1980's and there's no structural break to signify a change as a result of the buyback legislation. Similarly applies to firearm suicides.

You could check out this paper and get a better look at the statistics, and see that the gun buyback isn't all that it was cracked up to be.