I was wondering if perhaps it is nostalgia or just that it's an expectation now and there is no surprise at all. But yeah, it just doesn't seem as amusing or clever as it once was.

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Yeah, that's probably it. Sounds like about the right amount of time before it would be reported on Slashdot.

Yeah, that's out the FCCs jurisdiction to protect them from throttling.

Netflix. That is ultimately what all the support is about. A fear that they won't be able to stream shows at will. Now a 5 member panel has started down the path of control of the internet. It's amazing how much complaint I have seen from proponents about the 2 members that voted against it. Calling them unintelligent fuckwits or shills for corporate interests. Well That's the quality of the people on the panel. There is a complete disconnect celebrating them having control on one hand and saying nearly all of them are not qualified to make decisions about the internet on the other. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for limiting these large corporations that are basically monopolies. But A five member unelected group is not who I want to do it.

I feel like they are trying to tick us by keeping the green bars and slowing moving in the direction of beta.

I have text wrapping back over other text some places and text running off screen others. Buttons and links overlapping other content all over the place. Is it so hard to test this before you go live? Does the news for nerds site not have one person on staff that can handle a little css properly?

The problem is it wouldn't add water to the air-- at least enough to use enough of the thermal energy in the room.

It is perfect for the desert were there is low enough humidity and a never-ending supply of water to evaporate... oh, wait.

I understand a fear to speak negatively about them when you know they are listening.

Don't feel too bad, I don't think those even count as errors by slashdot submission standards. At least it was intelligible english.

Currently, it can only beam your PLA self a few inches to the left. By the looks of it, that vacuum system will likely prove inadequate-- leaving your PLA self standing in a pool of your original self that was slowing milled to death. Also, be sure that no matter how much it hurts, to stay perfectly still through the milling process.

Yes, pointless art-- that's the problem with it. Had it been good art it would have met one of the qualifiers GP mentioned. Nobody attacked art, they only attacked this one idea that was poorly executed.

Now I'm sure we can have long discussion arguing about what qualifies as good art, but wherever the line is, clearly this is below it and Stravinsky is above it. Anyone who wants to argue against that is just being difficult or trying to prove to others (or themselves) that they are an idealist.

Perhaps they just flew by us alive and well, thanks to special relativity.

has anyone actually stated that as a goal, or are you getting hung up on semantics?

I think you misunderstand more things than they do. Beside missing the intentions and goals, like above, you don't seem to understand that no matter how clean you can the printed structural wall, nobody will be satisfied with it and throw up sheetrock or paneling. The difference between doing that on a perfectly smooth wall and one with a finish like this is trivial if you have a package of shims. This tech enables a smaller factory to create a greater variety of precast structures and brings the setup cost to custom or low volume structural pieces down to the cost of design and eliminate much of the cost of equipment and setup of manufacturing such pieces.

It also lowers the entry level to producing premaufactured modular structures. Give me the print head and printing material and I, as well a quite a large number of hobbyists, can build the 3-axis CNC and get Open Source software to run it. Give me an architectural engineer, some laborers and a forklift or two and the plant is ready to roll with production.

3D printing in general has gone down a lot of wrong paths (like one of the main goals being able to print more printers) but when you treat it as part of the manufacturing process (rather than having the fantasy or ordering "Tea Earl Grey Hot") it's a step forward in our ability to produce as a society.

Sure, it need further development, but not only is it a step in the right direction, it is a step with the forethought and understanding of how this technology could effectively be used in the real world in the foreseeable future.

Oh, maybe they found it already.