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Comment It's not nice to fool Mother Nature (Score 1) 101

We already have 3-D printing VOLCANOES. Also, I don't see this as a patentable process. Also, it will have to be a big truck (as big as Timothy Olyphant's control truck in the movie Die Hard 4.0) with plenty of power, space, cooling and venting for the StrataSys Objet500 Connex3 printers that they will need to have onboard.

Comment Re:Will it tell me how to fix these bugs? (Score 1) 130

The things I hate about Leopard are what I've experienced: I was given Leopard as a Christmas gift, installed it with baited breath on Christmas Day Eve, lost my entire hard drive's contents (well, temporarily; I was able to recover 95% when I booted into FireWire Target Disk Mode [but even then only when attached to an older G4 running Tiger], and I've done six updates with no hitches at all so I know what I am doing, but apparently Apple didn't when they created the installer. Subsequently, aprés Leo, I now have occasional moments where the DVD drive will spit out yet another disk that it mysteriously couldn't burn data onto with any reliability. Not just with Toast, mind you (yes, I had the latest update, what did you think, tech support, that I ignore these things?) but with Automator AND Disk Utility...OTOH the 25 buck surplus no box drive that I got at Micro Center runs flawlessly with all the previously mentioned software. I like this one too: Apple decided to "break" the way it did font management as well. So developers have to scramble to release updates to address it. And what of the miraculous feature that disappeared from the release version of Leo, the desktop file sharing function? Did they banish it into iChat? Don't they think an iChatter may wish to share with his AIM brethren? And don't even get me started about iChat's file transfer function, which only works if each user is in the same CPU architecture, and same OS version. What does Steve-O think happens every six months? The same queue of people picking up this season's hardware? I think not. The concept of sharing is snared in the concept of parity. I am a print artist who needs to be able to send a 15 to 75MB PDF of a design back and forth to clients and printers, and I do not have $210 or more to spend a year on the upkeep of an FTP services packager. And don't comment about Yousendit.com and their ilk: I want to be able to send my file across my desktop to my client, transparently. So few of us can even navigate the file structure much less come to terms with another software to learn...

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