Comment Re:clunky software? (Score 1) 143
"Or that the printers themselves for commercial grade machines also cost many thousands of dollars."
I paid 10.000$ for my first 2D black&white Postscript Laserprinter >25 years ago and I liked it.
"Or that the printers themselves for commercial grade machines also cost many thousands of dollars."
I paid 10.000$ for my first 2D black&white Postscript Laserprinter >25 years ago and I liked it.
"...inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road. "
People fix their breaks, gears, engines all the time since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
You don't need software to be stupid.
"I think touch screens are kind of dangerous in a car. I know what my dials and buttons do and can control them by feel
You mean you're tapping your dials all the time because you don't trust them.
"the average value of an order from an iPad is $155, compared to $110 from Android tablets."
The funny thing is, that often it's for the exact same thing both of them bought.
Sites check the user-agent and rich guys (IOS) are shown a higher price for the same objects, as it has been noticed quite a few times.
So if you want a bargain, you need a user-agent-changer for your iPad to mimic a poor people's OS.
"They'll just restart it from a recent backup and we'll never even know it happened. If you were to start your life again yesterday, without remembering anything from yesterday or today, the whole world including your mind restored exactly to the state it was in yesterday, then time would appear uninterrupted."
There will always be some Bill Murray ruining it.
"Lave early before the rush.
Hang out until everyone else leaves - like I do on airplanes."
Rent a RV instead of using your car, then you just take nap, cook and eat something, watch a movie or take a shower until everybody has left.
We always do that for big concerts too.
"I'm not sure, the female colonists — born and raised in space, BTW — will all agree to inseminate themselves with the thawed sperm of strangers instead of following the instinct to conceive in the hot embrace of their lovers. "
That's sort of the point. The 'lovers' stay at home, you take only females on the flight an reproduce only females during the flight. Only on arrival you'd raise men.
That way no pissing contests during the dangerous part of the voyage.
"Do you need more than 8 min/week of shower for cleanliness? I'd guess 10 second is enough to spray water on the whole body, and 20 seconds suffice to remove soap. The suggested length doesn't sound too harsh."
You know there' a thing called female astronauts?
"would the use of an Orange network in country A by a customer from country B not result in at least some added accounting expense..."
About the same as a network in country B by a customer from country A.
The costs cancel each other out.
When they don't have to meter and bill the customers they'll have a net plus.
"I do not think there is a single law on the books that makes it illegal not to know something. "
You'll go to jail if you violate any law, even those you didn't know about, so your statement is up for discussion.
"Or maybe they were just eating rat?"
People were keeping coins in the mouth, harder for pickpockets to get at, so at every transaction, you got the pest for free.
"Is there a market for used or stolen Tesla cars or parts?"
Not very likely. Even the radio is dangerous for the ears, since the volume goes up to 11.
"I have to imagine that the climb to that level of 3D printing (assuming we ever get there) will be so gradual that society will have plenty of time to adjust."
Yes. All those Chinese kids who make the world's shoes will do something else instead.
"Why wouldn't sleeper ships have radio beacons, and if later ships developed better propulsion tech, they could catch up to the older ones, update their engines or transfer their crew. Why would you simply leave the older ships out there, knowing they're eventually going to catch up with you at the destination?"
We can't even find a Boing on Earth who had radio beacons.
"this. Augmented reality is about interacting with the real world. Virtual reality is about being cut off from it."
Just add a camera to Occulus and you can walk through a New York without the rats, where crazy and homeless people are moving pieces of art, the subway cars always brand new and so on.
Unfortunately without an Nosolus Rift, you'll still have the smell of pee.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
