Here’s a 3D-printing application I really didn’t foresee. It looks interesting, but at those prices, it’s going to be a long time before it catches on. Now, when someone invents a machine that scans your mouth and produces one of these in a few minutes for $10 or less, and puts it in Wal-Mart stores …
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Remember what I said last year, about how governments will soon find themselves responsible for the mental health of their citizens? Academics have just taken another step toward it.
The Swiss plan to clean up low-Earth orbit is finally taking off (pun completely intended). 🙂
I’ve talked about 3D printers before, and how they’re destined to revolutionize everything from medicine to construction, but this is an application I’d never considered.
The Solid State Drive (SSD) has been in the system for over a week now, so here’s an update on it: It’s FAST! Okay, that’s not news, but I felt compelled to say it anyway. 😉 After letting the Linux VM run for several days with memory-hog programs like Firefox (with about a dozen pages …
Both the new Solid State Drive (SSD) and the Data Doubler mounting bracket arrived way ahead of schedule — on Thursday afternoon, in fact, a day early for the Data Doubler and at least four days early for the drive itself. I’m not complaining. 🙂 The drive was in OEM packaging, meaning that it was …
Solid State Drives. Ridiculously fast. Ridiculously expensive too. I’ve wanted to move to one for years, but one major thing held me back: their longevity. Not only do they fail, but according to both Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (old-school computer geeks who I highly respect), they fail catastrophically, and in a really, really short …
(This is a continuation of my last two articles, here and here, on a mental health technique I discovered a few months ago.) It used to be that your mental health didn’t matter much to most people. Your family probably cared, assuming they weren’t too screwed up to do so, as an unfortunate number of …
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The first Asus “Eee” machine ushered in the era of the netbook. I’ve got one of them, and it’s a nice little machine. With its upgraded 2GB of memory and the 4GB solid-state drive, it’s plenty powerful for most uses (though not my usual use, which is software development); my in-laws borrowed it to take …
After two and a half years of very heavy use, I am replacing my first Mac. With another one — I’m still ambivalent about some of the OS design decisions, but the hardware is first-rate. The first one still works fine, other than a little wear and tear. It’s a 13″ MacBook Pro, the higher-end …