Oracle is the perfect example.

You pay by the number of processors, by the speed of the processors, etc....

WTF should a software company be able to charge based on what hardware I own? Yet people pay them all day long.

Now, it's slightly different in that Oracle helps a company make money, where as a Movie is purely entertainment. I think the Pay per Screen size will be a HUGE flop since it will be very hard to know the size of the device and people will be against it. Some will pay though because they don't care, they just want to watch a movie.

Well, for me it's Arcade parts. There are a lot of obsolete and hard to find/expensive parts. There are also a lot of custom parts I have designed to use in Arcade games.

One example of something I did use it for was when I was building the rack to hold the spools of material for the printer. I printed the mounts for the PVC pipe and I printed the Wall Anchors used to secure it in sheet rock. I printed the wall anchors because I was assembling it and didn't have any and all the stores were closed. So I figured, what the hell, I can just make them. I'll probably use it to build some custom tools and other things that would come in handy around the house.

Honestly, for the average person, a 3D printer probably wouldn't be used that much right now. I do think that once the speed and reliability are addressed, and the price comes down, more people will find new and unique uses for a 3D printer.

I agree with most of what you say. I also own a 3D printer (Solidoodle 3)

I see two main things that are keeping 3d printing from really taking off in the home. Once they solve these two issues it should really take off. There are other minor issues that need to be addressed as well, but the two issues that need to be fixed are : Speed and Reliability. I've designed up a product that I would like to print, but it takes 1.5 hours to print, and that is if it makes it fully through the print. Issues with warping, clogging, overheating, etc... are the main concerns about reliability.

I would be happy if they could cut my print time in half, but it's the current limitation of the technology being used in the home market. Some other technology is going to have to be used in order to overcome both issues, but those technologies are currently out of the budget for home users.

Unlike the post above, I do think it will happen in my lifetime though.

Do you really think that's fair?

To the E.T. Video game that is...

Real Reason

Keep charging for Windows, but remove the Product Activation and "Genuine Advantage" crap. Then let the pirates go wild. People will Pirate it thinking they are getting something for Nothing, and those that still pay for Windows, will be gravy for you.

Photos would not have the information they need. They will need to look at the Schematics for the game, and those are not exactly the best.

The Schematics are here if you want to take a look at them:
http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF...

Hand drawn, somewhat hard to read, but at least they exist.

If they do emulate Monaco GP, that means they will have a very good understanding of how the hardware works, which will help with future repairs.

Monaco GP is all TTL logic, No CPU. Pretty cool considering how awesome the game is!

Although I own the real thing, I would love to see it emulated... It would provide a wealth of technical information about the game that would help with future repairs!

You can throw out the IDE and use Notepad if you want, but I'll stick with my IDE and be done in a fraction of the time, with less bugs and better quality code (thanks to all the tools I use in the IDE). Less bugs because the IDE will help with cut down on cut & paste errors with code analysis. Higher quality of code because of things like auto formatting, code analysis, etc...

As many have said before, it's about solving problems, not memorizing the 100 overloads for a specific call. I know what the problem is, I know what I want to do to solve it, why not let the IDE help me do it faster?

Here is a live feed of the Asteroid event...

As an old timer, let me say that I don't mind change, as long as it's an Improvement. If it's change just for the sake of change, or the change makes things WORSE, then yes, I hate it.

I hope Stereolithography takes off. I've run into a lot of the limitations (frustrations) of the FDM technology and it limits what you can really do with it. It's a really cool printer, but I'm not able to do everything I need to with it.

I think technologies like the SLA will work better in the long run because they will be able to print more detailed parts and you won't have the same issues that FDM does, such as overhangs, sharp angles, hollow objects, etc...

The BETA testers of this system....

The better question is this:

Why is this information even stored in plain text and publicly accessible where it can be indexed in the first place?