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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.06 20:48:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:Well we work better in office scenarios from what I understand, so there will still be that. Telepresence has only gotten us so far, and Skype is an adhoc arrangement but personal contact is preferable if available.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1614
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Posted - 2013.05.06 21:05:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:stoicfaux wrote:I think the big take-away is that we're one step closer to death by gray goo. Also, you may want to sell any interests you own in miniatures, dolls, action figures, and/or plastic toys in general. And I think we're going to see legislature that really cracks down on the sales of 3D printers along with severe new IP laws (to prevent people from making their own unlicensed parts, toys, etc..) when bans on 3D printers become too difficult to enforce. Finally, what's scarier: people printing their own guns, or people printing their own car parts (of indeterminate quality) on the cheap...? Jewelers are already scared. They can be made obsolete by 3D printers. Fine metalworking and hand-sculpting wax models to make molds for casting-- easily replaced by a guy with a 3D design app and a 3D printer. That's one of those old apprentice to journeyman to master craftsman occupations. Kind of sad to see it go.
The better craftsmen should be racing to embrace it. The technology will make possible designs previously impossible, or nearly impossible. Vision and creativity will finally be matched with technology that can can bring the most fantastic designs to fruition.
I think it was Buddy Holly who said he had sounds inside his head that the world had never heard. Similarly, the truly excellent craftsmen certainly have visions of jewelry in their head that defied the mechanics of existing technology.
Nor need the current skills vanish. Nailguns have not made obsolete the hammer, nor have air wrenches made obsolete the crescent wrench. Screwguns have not made obsolete the screwdriver, nor has the foundry made extinct the blackmsith. What *will* happen is that cheap, low-imagination jewelry will become comoditized out of existence (mostly), and the field of custom / bespoke jewelry ought to see a renaissance. There will be some winnowing of course, but most of us simply don't have the trained imagination to match the designs of a really excellent jeweler.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1614
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Posted - 2013.05.06 21:12:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:I bet when metal based ones of sufficient quanity start coming near commercialised there will be open source car designs.
Metal-based ones already exist. They're called CNC Mills. Yes, there are models small enough for the well-heeled hobbyiest. All it takes is an interface to your scanner (already developed!) and you can turn out metalic, plastic, or wood objects directly.
However, the milling or printing process is NOT mass-production friendly. You're not going to see parts supply houses going out of business over printers. You may see some low-turnover product lines being dropped, perhaps. The big auto groups don't make their own spare parts anyway - they job those out to supply-chain firms. Saw the impact here locally when Dodge pulled out of Newark (DE) - a score or so small-to-medium businesses which supplied spares and related services folded immediately after the plant shuttered.
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pussnheels
The Fiction Factory
1179
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Posted - 2013.05.07 08:43:00 -
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so does anyone has the prints for a thermo nuclear device for me i pau you 100 mil isk for one
sometimes technology can be a pain in the ass
what irritates me it is getting so much attention in the media
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Commissar Akiga
Aerodyne Collective.
WHY so Seri0Us
10
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Posted - 2013.05.07 13:18:00 -
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I think it's pretty sad that there are millions without a meal tonight and we're focussing our efforts on manufacturing things to take lives instead of save them.
Out of sight, out of mind I guess...
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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
1706
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Posted - 2013.05.07 13:28:00 -
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Don't worry, the 3d printer is one step closer to becoming a replicator. A painstakingly slow replicator.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4785
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Posted - 2013.05.07 13:52:00 -
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Micheal Dietrich wrote:Don't worry, the 3d printer is one step closer to becoming a replicator. A painstakingly slow replicator.
Just as long as I get just one.
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Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.05.07 14:58:00 -
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Of course the ultimate application will be to make better, more detailed, less blobby D&D miniatures! Actually it's probably the Napoleonic miniatures that could use more help in this area. |
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
1707
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Posted - 2013.05.07 15:09:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Of course the ultimate application will be to make better, more detailed, less blobby D&D miniatures! Actually it's probably the Napoleonic miniatures that could use more help in this area.
This was a big discussion between me and friends lately. We were talking about picking up a $300 3d printer and a scanner. Then what we do is pick up one box set of the armies that we use for 40k or fantasy and we scan each sprue. Then with my programs I can physically reshape legs and arms and add or delete details, making each model that much more unique in the army. The savings would show easily within 10 tanks which is why I stopped playing so long ago. I mean its what now, like $30 for a unit and almost $60 for vehicles now?
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1620
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Posted - 2013.05.07 17:02:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Of course the ultimate application will be to make better, more detailed, less blobby D&D miniatures! Actually it's probably the Napoleonic miniatures that could use more help in this area. A friend of mine is using his printer to print interlocking terrain hexes of various profiles and heights. He figures he doesn't really need to print miniatures, but no one has the excellent maps that he has.
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OfBalance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.07 18:22:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:I always knew Communism and Capitalism would eventually become indistinguishable. Already have socialised healthcare, education and water, bring on the rest.
In what way is that the merger of communism and capitalism? Socialized tax-funded healthcare, education, and utilities are anathema to voluntary exchange and have nothing to do with capitalism.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4807
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Posted - 2013.05.07 18:23:00 -
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OfBalance wrote:Kirjava wrote:I always knew Communism and Capitalism would eventually become indistinguishable. Already have socialised healthcare, education and water, bring on the rest. In what way is that the merger of communism and capitalism? Socialized tax-funded healthcare, education, and utilities are anathema to voluntary exchange and have nothing to do with capitalism.
Whats the difference between a Megacorporation and a Communist state?
And the above seems to be working out pretty sweet in Scotland, might be a cultural thing.
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pussnheels
The Fiction Factory
1182
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Posted - 2013.05.08 05:16:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Of course the ultimate application will be to make better, more detailed, less blobby D&D miniatures! Actually it's probably the Napoleonic miniatures that could use more help in this area.
uumm never thought on that
i even finally might finish my late imperial army of the 30 year war or my otto+¦an empire army
you can't imagine how difficult it is to find good quality 20mm figures for that
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