I thought I'd check your signature, now that is irony!

As the other posts have shown, CNC is a system for control. 3D printers utilise this same process. The real distinction is between additive and subtractive manufacturing methods. That's unrelated to CNC systems.

Irony is, 3D printing is CNC.

I wouldn't exclude the possibility of microsoft having no direct involvement. The games reviews industry is in broad terms, quite happy to constantly give good reviews. Just look at all the 7/10's they like to give to awful games. The problem is, a lot of reviewers are reliant on publishers for their games to review. If they don't get them, then they have nothing to review, or worse, they have to pay for them. This is why they don't want to give bad reviews to bad games, it even happened with duke nukem forever, where some guy got blasted for putting on twitter that they would be punishing bad reviewers by withholding things.

ars technica wrote an article on how the games industry also loves to wine and dine reviewers, giving an example for one of the modern warfare games, where the reviewers got helicopter joyrides and a stay in a resort. So they don't have to say anything to the reviewers, anyone is smart enough to realise that if they give bad reviews, they can say buh-bye to their perks.

It was gamespot who sacked a reviewer, names Jeff Gerstmann who gave a (justified) bad review of kane & lynch after the website was plastered in advertising for it.

So did machinima do it by themselves, it's probable, as I doubt any of these companies would formally organise something illegal, but there is certainly an incentive for them to do so, an unspoken incentive which they know they will lose if they change their tune. There are so many examples of this, that I think it's the norm or method of operation of the reviews industry.

Probably is! I worked for a company manufacturing hazardous area heaters, in oz, for the oil and gas industry and many places were still using very old systems. Sure, they worked, but it didn't look like they were designed with the idea of a remote attack in mind, as they generally predated the internet.

We all know advertising and product placement can make a big difference and return on investment, so what about including paid for marketing and tv show plugs into the modelling? Nothing can be successful if no one has heard of it.

It could be that once a certain amount of kids are wrapped in cotton wool and not allowed to leave the house, eventually, any others that still are able, won't have anyone to interact with, hence, it just pushes willing kids/parents to socialise online, anyway.

I heard this idea when it comes to vaccines, that even though you might not vaccinate everyone, since just about everyone around someone who may be unvaccinated, will probably be vaccinated, as a result of that, they remain unlikely to contract a contagious illness and are benefiting from the high rate of vaccination. I'm not saying anyone should stop vaccinating at all, but going back to your concern, if your kids friends weren't able to come over or hang out due to their parents lack of permission, there's not much he or you could do about that.

Google in Australia, naturally, does the same thing. a few years ago, they paid approximately $AU74,000 in tax on about $AU1,000,000,000 in revenue. Yes it's not profit, but the metrics just tell you that it's woefully inadequate for such movement of money. Article for further reading

Probably not far off the mark. I'm noticing it in Australia, and not just in the public service, that hardware like tablets, don't appear to be solving anything or improving productivity, it mostly appears like as if they're shoehorning them in because people want them or they want to appear like they're keeping up with the times.

This is just absurd. There's plenty of non-bible material, or one could easily call it evidence that Jesus existed at the time and was crucified.

Depends which Christians. See, 10 is not exactly Christian, because Jesus himself claimed two to be of most importance, and at the last supper gave a new commandment. As a catholic, we don't really dwell heavily in the old testament, but there are other Christians who do, and it really muddies the waters when you group apostolic Christians (i.e. catholic and orthodox churches) with protestants and then evangelicals to complete nutters like the westboro baptist church amongst other nominally Christian sects and cults.

The 10 commandments are of jewish origin, and are respected by muslims as well, since they are included in the quran. They didn't come from Jesus, so the 'overtly Christian message' comment just seems to be way off the mark and most importantly, it is technically incorrect.

While governments shouldn't really get involved at all, with religions, because it will exhibit some favouritism, amongst a plethora of other reasons, the satanists in this instance just appear to be sectarians who desperately hate christians. I guess by being motivated by hate, they do display that they're practicing satanists, rather than just regular bigotry and intolerance present in religions.

You mean ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd's toy boy list. Abbott has only been PM since September. This is a problem he inherited.

The problem is, not that long ago, the Indonesians didn't consider Australia, a 'colonial outpost, a listening station for the UK and USA' but rather 'South Irian'.

I actually went to a talk by a Prof. Michelle Simmons on this last night, and asked that question. My understanding is that it would just does all the calculations at once, in a massively parallel operation (which obviously isn't efficient). I'm no computer scientist (just a mechanical and mechatronic engineer) and I don't really know anything behind quantum mechanics, but the other thing mentioned in the talk about a quantum computer is that it would have perfect security (her words), because, and now i'm relying on memory, a quantum computer doesn't store data like a classic computer, as it can't be perfectly replicated, so the quantum computer needs to keep the qubits active for as long as possible in the computer (hence the importance of the coherence time, as stated in the article). Because a quantum computer is an adiabatic system, it sends the 'energy' from one place to another. Eavesdropping would mean you reroute that energy, and it doesn't go to its intended place.

A lot of it went over my head, so take this with a spoon of salt, as I could have botched it up, but that's the gist of my understanding, and off-topic info

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