Quick! Put it on YouTube so everyone ... can... see... it.

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Q: So, girly, you like roller skatin'?
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| --> A: Yes --> Yeah, everybody loves roller skatin'..
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| --> A: No --> Yeah, everybody loves roller skatin'...

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Aaaannd I spot a mismatched tag. I don't deserve any mod points, I tells ya!

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<M2M>
<vehicle>
<ssid>rubber_duck</ssid>
<haul>timber</price>
<destination>Tulsa Town</destination>
<kph>160</kph>
<mode>convoy</mode>
<memo>we got a great big convoy</memo>
</vehicle>
<vehicle>
<ssid>big_ben</ssid>
<haul>hogs</price>
<destination>Tulsa Town</destination>
<kph>160</kph>
<mode>convoy</mode>
<memo>ain\'t she a beautiful sight?</memo>
</vehicle>
</M2M>

IIRC the other issue was the licensing of audio books, which text-to-speech readers would somewhat compete with.

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...installing Kindle for Android....

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Make a $99 one aimed at kids. Doesn't produce anything really useful, but yes, you can print all kinds of cool-looking shit. It'd help if the plastic can be melted down and reused over and over like Play-Doh. An open API, plus mechanical hackability should be implicit in its design, if not necessarily condoned ('warranty void if broken' and so on.) Something like that would get the ball rolling.

And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.

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Thirty years from now, someone's going to take their Xbox out of the attic and say, "This is what daddy used to play games on!", hook it up to their 4 meter wide screen, somehow patch it to their Internet3 connection, only to realize MS went under twenty years earlier and the games are no longer playable.

~ Don't be sad Daddy! We could still play them in emulation!

~ Ah, it's not the same. Besides, no one bothered to make an emulator for this box. The games pretty much sucked.

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Been on my yearly Forbidden Prefixes lists since 2004 and STILL GOING STRONG!

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These guys have been planning this since last year? What's to plan? What more would it take than a couple of guys with picks and sledgehammers to kink up the track? Perhaps a train buff out there could weigh in on this.

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If an when there is a flying car, you can expect multi-tier licensing, say, starting with one tier that lets you tell your car where you want to go, and the car's autopilot takes you there, up to fully autonomous piloting, which would be hard to get and even harder to keep. "Throw trash out the car window? That's a groundin'. Flyin' in and out of flight corridors? That's a groundin'. Fly your car straight into the ground? Oh, you better believe that's a groundin'."

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...and all of this will happen again.

They use 1s and 0s where everyone else uses 0s and 1s.

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Isn't that kinda, y'know, a useful ability? I'm picturing steel compost bins full of snails and old deli containers.

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Da, may I have 10,000 PS4s please?

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