How many people actually want curved walls though?
People who hire fancy architects. Not people who have to work for a living.
It depends on what you're building. If you want a normal rectangular house, 3D printing will be incredibly inefficient and pointless compared to traditional framing techniques.
On the other hand, if you want curved walls, traditional framing becomes incredibly complex and expensive, whereas 3D printing takes exactly the same materials and labour regardless.
I think 3D printing an entire house is just a gimmick, but it will still be an incredibly useful tool, even if only used for simple things like making rounded foundation pads or retaining walls that follow the landscape or curved hallways connecting modular buildings.
Having some word or phrase marking the end of a request makes the voice recognition a little more reliable. It doesn't have to be polite, but being polite when it's totally unnecessary is a good habit to build.
"Do X please" makes it unambiguously clear (to a machine) where the end of the request is, whereas "Please do X" is mostly pointless.
Pipe dream, but I really wish we would make it illegal to use the terms "Buy" or "Own" for digital goods that can at some point not exist outside of your control.
I give you a dollar and get a DRM-free video file? That is buying.
I give you a dollar and can watch a video file an unlimited number of times in your app? That is not buying, and it should be fraud to claim that it is.
Are they offering complimentary doctors visits if you register as being too warm?
Nah, the other kind of infrared sensor (i.e. just using movement to detect if you're there).
They could be part of a totally innocent turn-the-lights-off-when-nobody-is-working system that doesn't track individual users or log data. They could also be part of a log-how-much-time-you-spend-on-the-toilet system.
I had to pay for a static IP just this week because it turns out the new ISP uses CG-NAT.
It's not quite that bad (yet...) - it has reasonably clearly labelled subscription and non-subscription cartridges. So when you cancel the subscription, you just throw the non-subscription cartridge back in.
If you're printing quite a lot, but not enough to justify a laser printer, then they can work out okay. The vast majority of people would indeed be wasting money though.
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