You have to be a pretty dumb, even for a racist, to think that turning up to court in a Nazi uniform would help your case...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nj-nazi-dad-pregnant-fiancee-hope-lil-eva-braun-article-1.1376354Quote from: SM on Jun 21, 2013, 06:18:10 AM
The cartridges always cost a bomb though...
(Unless of course you just print more)
Actually, there was a recent article on Wired, where an inventor's made it so that you can just put garbage in and his device will create the raw printing materials from it, Mr Fusion-style!
Quote from: DoomRulz on Jun 21, 2013, 07:10:46 AM
The technology is nice I agree but the bigger question is ultimately, will it be used for good or evil? I think history has taught us that new technology inevitably always finds its biggest home in military applications.
It's a tool. There may be negative uses, but the positive ones, like creating entire organs for medical emergencies, will far outweigh those. Providing you had a huge enough printer, there'd be nothing preventing us from literally 3D printing entire houses (or at least modular segments of them) for relatively cheap money, too. I could also see a time when charities just send out a 3D printer and specialist to some African village in poverty, have it create the components for making a well or electric generator... That proverb about 'teach a man to fish' being taken to its ultimate, awesome conclusion.
A lot of people forget, 3D printers don't just use plastic. They do metal, living cells, practically anything...In future, I wouldn't be surprised to see single models being able to print in anything you put in them. When the technology matures sufficiently, they'll effectively eliminate the 'middle man' of logistics... You won't need stuff to be delivered locally. The manufacturer/copyright holder would just have the schematic request sent over and your shop will tell you the thing you're buying will be ready in five minutes. You could literally see it being created.
Eliminating the expense of logistics is going to force us to rethink the way our economies function, given enough time. Especially with pure data transfer being impossible to tax in the way physical goods are during transactions now. We're a way off from that, but the basic models are getting sold in Staples. Can hardly imagine what a decade of development will mean for this... Even if it's just creating our own life-sized articulated Stan Winston designs.
In fact, I just thought, this impacts colonisation efforts for Mars directly... If we only need to send data, instead of actual supplies, they can just 3D print/fabricate whatever they need. Massive savings for on-going transportation and fuel costs! Send some colonists with their own fabricators and tools, sit back and let them take care of it.