Scoutdog

Scoutdog

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Banned because..... [e digicons]:meow:[/e] [e digicons]:dog:[/e] [e digicons]|-)[/e] SO CUTE! [e digicons]|-)[/e] [e digicons]:dog:[/e] [e digicons]:meow:[/e]

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Reply to forum 'ban game' two in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned because the Force really is similar to gravity- Living things generate it (along with everything else), it may or may not travel faster than the speed of light, you can tell if something big occurred by looking for disturbances in it, and it binds the universe together.

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Reply to 3D Printer Opinions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Not to mention, any change in supply would affect conventional fabrication techniques as well. I definitely expect 3-D printers to take up a serious role in machine shops within my lifetime, probably a lot sooner than that. But I doubt they'll become the only (or for that matter, the most common) machine there- right tool for the job, and all that. I'm not even sure if they'll end up in houses. Especially the metal kind. I don't know much about them, specifical

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Reply to 3D Printer Opinions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

True, true. The last thing I want is a debate on gun control... now I understand why SD pays you. The nefarious uses component is I suppose tangentially related to that, but the Guardian article only reinforces my initial idea that 3-D printing is useful, but not revolutionary.

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Reply to 3D Printer Opinions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="24" id="3355971"]There is always an absurdist bullshit response. It's guaranteed whenever that obscenity called 'gun control' is even hinted at. As to the second part.....'where we are going'...it's an old phrase...."hell".[/quote]Hyperbolic it may be, but Bosh does have a very good point. There's a lot of factory machines now that can be used to manufacture crude weapons, as well as miscellaneous parts that can serve in that cap

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Reply to 3D Printer Opinions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Eventually the cost will go down. The question is whether that will happen rapidly. Too slow, and either an even better means of production will become available, or (if it takes a really long time) the demand for such fabrication will fall off.

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Reply to 3D Printer Opinions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Basically, I agree with what other people have said: 3D printers are going to make manufacturing simpler and easier for existing manufacturing-sector companies/projects, but because the technology is expensive (and will be for some time, even if not quite as expensive) and making the models is hard work that isn't easily automated, they won't be revolutionary. The university I work/study at has a few various models, exactly which I'm not sure (us CS majors tend to

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